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FTSE dismisses Web site hack
News Leading financial index the FTSE has dismissed a recent attack on its Web site as no more than a juvenile prank and reassured customers that no vital data was at risk. There has been growing concern over the impact of security breaches on the...
[December 11, 2000, 15:06]
FTSE 100 losing the search battle
News Research by search marketing company The Search Works has found that 64 percent of FTSE 100 companies' Web sites don't rank in the first page of search results for keywords, which could see them losing the 90 percent of would-be buyers who never...
[February 22, 2005, 15:20]
FTSE ousts Freeserve from top index
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. The FTSE actuaries committee meets quarterly to review...
[October 20, 2000, 12:30]
Baltimore relegated from FTSE 250
News Ailing Irish security firm Baltimore was hit by more bad news on Friday as it was forced out of the FTSE 250. Baltimore, previously one of UK's high-flying tech stocks, will instead enter the lowly FTSE small cap index.
[August 24, 2001, 10:22]
News Burst: Freeserve to get boot from FTSE 100
News Freeserve, a bellwether of the UK's Internet industry since its flotation in March 1999, is likely to be ejected from the FTSE 100 next week, when the index goes through its quarterly review. The move is seen as a sign of the times by industry...
[August 29, 2000, 10:21]
Autonomy likely to be ousted from FTSE 100
News Autonomy, the software company that created the UK's first software billionaire when it floated last November, is likely to be delisted from the FTSE 100 index of blue-chip shares when the index is revised on Wednesday.
[March 5, 2001, 13:36]
Freeserve could get the boot from FTSE 100
News The downturn in dot-com shares will take another toll next week, when pioneering Internet service provider Freeserve will likely be removed from the FTSE 100 index. If Freeserve is not in the top 100 companies that day it will move into the FTSE 250.
[August 30, 2000, 7:41]
FTSE boosted by tech and telecom stocks
News The FTSE 100 index closed up 145 points at 6,185 on Thursday as UK technology and telecom stocks benefited from Wednesday's cut in US interest rates. Colt Telecom (quote: CTM) showed the biggest percentage gain, and was up 18 percent at the close.
[January 4, 2001, 17:36]
Freeserve ejected from FTSE 100
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. The FTSE actuaries committee meets quarterly to review...
[October 20, 2000, 8:00]
Market roundup: FTSE down as investors hold breath
News The FTSE 100 index of blue-chip shares sank 46.7 to 6045.7 as investors waited for possible changes in US inflation and interest rates. US GDP data, which affects interest rates, is expected Thursday, and traders Wednesday were holding their breath...
[October 27, 1999, 17:24]
Rate worries pound FTSE, Nasdaq, Dow
News The FTSE 100 index had minutes earlier been down around 101 points, extending its sharp drop on Tuesday when it slid 3.8 percent or 264 points -- its biggest daily nominal points decline ever. In the meantime, the UK's FTSE 100 index slipped more...
[January 5, 2000, 9:46]
Nasdaq drop slams UK markets - again
News The FTSE 100 and FTSE techMARK indices dropped precipitously in morning trading Tuesday, following the Nasdaq's second-biggest one-day decline on Monday. As of 1100 GMT the FTSE 100 was down 72.4 at 6,461, while the techMARK 100, which monitors...
[April 11, 2000, 10:30]
UK tech stocks take a hammering
News By mid-afternoon the FTSE's techMARK 100 index had dropped by more than 300 points to around 3,773. I think the FTSE will pay a bit more attention to the Dow, but the tech stocks are going to suffer," one dealer said.
[April 4, 2000, 14:26]
News Burst: Markets get respite from gloom
News The FTSE 100 index of blue-chips was up 56.8 to 6272.8 by 1100 GMT, with the techMARK 100 index of high-tech companies up 82.9 to 3410.6. In the mean time, the damage has already been done to many UK tech companies, with Freeserve due to leave the...
[October 20, 2000, 10:45]
IT sector sees increased profit warnings
News Research by Ernst & Young shows profit warnings in the software and computer services sector of the FTSE share index rose by 44 percent in the first quarter of 2008. Across all sectors of the FTSE index, 114 profit warnings were issued by UK quoted...
[April 15, 2008, 9:56]
Top firms fail the Internet challenge
News This report, called The Third Annual Report on The Home Pages of the UK's Top 100 Companies' Corporate Web Sites, studied the Web sites of the members of the FTSE 100 -- the 100 biggest companies listed on the London stock market.
[January 9, 2004, 16:30]
Roundup: Dot-com downturn - where do companies go from here?
News The news that Freeserve will almost certainly fall out of the FTSE 100 when the index is revised next week has triggered another round of speculation on just what went wrong -- with some arguing that dot-com shares were simply overvalued to begin...
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
UK tech spending should be solid in 2002
News A survey carried out by offshore software developer NIIT Europe has found that 38 percent of IT managers at FTSE 1000 companies who responded to the survey expect their IT spending to be greater this year than last year.
[April 12, 2002, 15:02]
Markets stumble over weak tech shares
News At midday Wednesday the FTSE 100 stood about one percent lower at 6,229, with the techMARK 100 down 2.2 percent at 3,741. Other early fallers in the FTSE were some of Tuesday's strongest gainers, mostly from the technology and media sectors and...
[May 3, 2000, 10:23]
Intel profit warning hits weak UK markets
News Technology shares, which were helping put the market on course for a 13th drop in 14 sessions, dominated the top ten FTSE 100 percentage losers. The FTSE 100 index took an immediate hit Friday morning, initially dropping more than 120 points.
[September 22, 2000, 10:32]
