FTSE 100 index posts 0.9% gain for 2022; pound’s worst year since 2016 – as it happened

Blue-chip share index finishes turbulent year slightly higher, beating global markets

• UK house prices fall for fourth month in a row, the longest run since 2008

Here's a breakdown of UK house prices in the last quarter of this year, and the annual price change, from Nationwide's housing report:

South West, 307,588, 4.3%

East Midlands, 233,459, 5.3%

Wales, 205,666, 4.5%

West Midlands, 240,975, 6.1%

North West, 208,600, 6.0%

East Anglia, 285,776, 6.6%

Yorkshire and the Humber, 199,615, 4.6%

Outer South East (includes Ashford, Basingstoke and Deane, Bedford, Braintree, Brighton and Hove, Canterbury, Colchester, Dover, Hastings, Lewes, Fareham, Isle of Wight, Maldon, Milton Keynes, New Forest, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Swale, Tendring, Thanet, Uttlesford, Winchester, Worthing), 344,027, 4.3%

Northern Ireland, 176,637, 5.5%

Outer Metropolitan (includes St Albans, Stevenage, Watford, Luton, Maidstone, Reading, Rochford, Rushmoor, Sevenoaks, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate & Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Waverley, Woking, Tunbridge Wells, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham), 428,201, 4.2%

North East, 156,892, 5.9%

Scotland, 178,269, 3.3%

London, 528,000, 4.1%