UK’s FTSE 100 share index records best year since 2009 – as it happened
by Graeme Wearden from on (#72G49)
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as London's blue-chip share index rises by 21.5% for the year
We've had encouraging economic news from China overnight, where a slump in factory output has ended.
China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index rose to 50.1 in December from 49.2 in November, ending an eight-month contraction streak.
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