FTSE 100 Index
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The Financial Times Stock Exchange Index of 100 Leading Shares, or FTSE 100 Index (pronounced footsie), is a share index of the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The index is seen as a barometer of success of the British economy and is the leading share index in Europe. It is maintained by the FTSE Group, which originated as a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange. According to the FTSE Group's website the FTSE 100 companies represent about 80% of the UK share market.
Related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which lists the next largest 250 companies), FTSE Small cap, the FTSE 350 Index (which combines the FTSE 100 and 250), and the FT All Share Index (which incorporates all listed companies).
The constituents of the index are determined quarterly; the largest companies in the FTSE 250 Index are promoted if their market capitalisation would place them in the top 90 firms of the FTSE 100 Index. As of 2005, the threshold for inclusion is about 2 billion pounds. The largest 5 constituents of the index are BP, HSBC Holdings, the Vodafone Group, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and GlaxoSmithKline (but note that the Royal Dutch/Shell group would be in the top 5 if the whole of it was listed on the LSE, rather than just the 40% represented by Shell Transport and Trading).
Most of the companies listed on this index usually include the abbreviation plc at the end of their name, indicating their status of public limited company.
List of FTSE 100 Index Companies
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- Alliance & Leicester
- Alliance Unichem
- Allied Domecq
- Amvescap
- Anglo American plc
- Antofagasta
- Associated British Foods
- AstraZeneca plc
- Aviva
- BAA plc
- BAE Systems
- Barclays Bank
- BG Group
- BHP Billiton
- The BOC Group
- Boots Group
- BP
- BPB
- British Airways
- British American Tobacco
- British Land Company
- British Sky Broadcasting
- BT Group
- Cable & Wireless
- Cadbury Schweppes
- Capita Group
- Carnival
- Centrica
- Compass Group
- Daily Mail & General Trust
- Diageo
- Dixons Group
- Emap
- Enterprise Inns
- Exel
- Friends Provident
- Gallaher Group
- GlaxoSmithKline
- GUS
- Hammerson
- Hanson
- Hays
- HBOS
- Hilton Group
- HSBC Holdings
- Imperial Chemical Industries
- Imperial Tobacco Group
- InterContinental Hotels Group
- International Power
- ITV
- J Sainsbury
- Johnson Matthey
- Kingfisher
- Land Securities Group
- Legal & General
- Liberty International
- Lloyds TSB Bank
- Man Group
- Marks and Spencer
- Wm Morrison Supermarkets
- National Grid Transco
- Next
- Northern Rock
- O2
- Old Mutual
- Pearson
- Prudential
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Reed Elsevier
- Rentokil Initial
- Reuters Group
- Rexam
- Rio Tinto
- Rolls-Royce Group
- Royal Bank of Scotland Group
- Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance
- SABMiller
- Sage Group
- Schroders
- Scottish & Newcastle
- Scottish & Southern Energy
- Scottish Power
- Severn Trent
- Shell Transport & Trading Co
- Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
- Smith & Nephew
- Smiths Group
- Standard Chartered
- Tesco
- Tate and Lyle
- Unilever
- United Utilities
- Vodafone Group
- Whitbread
- William Hill
- Wolseley
- WPP Group
- Xstrata
- Yell Group
See also
External link
- FTSE Group website (http://www.ftse.com/)de:FTSE