FTSE 100 joins rebound in global stock markets — as it happened
US markets opened up with the S&P 500 up 34.53 points, or 0.52 per cent, at 6,698.54, the Dow Jones industrial up 183 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 46,373.68 and the Nasdaq Composite up 164.85 points, or 0.73 per cent, at 22,844.82.
Investors took heart from comments from the White House’s economic adviser Kevin Hassett that the government shutdown is “likely to end sometime this week”, though he also warned that if that does not happen the Trump administration may impose “stronger measures” to force Democrats to co-operate.
Pizza Hut UK goes into administration
Pizza Hut UK Restaurants has entered administration six weeks after HMRC filed a winding up petition against the business.
DC London Pie Ltd., the company formed to run…
