FTSE 100
FTSE100 · Market Index
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Overview
FTSE100 — FTSE 100 — trades publicly as a market index. The most recent price was 10,750.11, down 1.39% over the past 24 hours. Trading volume came in at 0.
- Ticker
- FTSE100
- Type
- Market Index
Historical Chart
FTSE 100 price chart, 1M range. Current price 10,750.11. Down 1.39% over the selected range.
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What Is FTSE 100?
The FTSE 100 tracks the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange by market capitalization, and has served as the U.K.'s principal equity benchmark since its launch in 1984, maintained by FTSE Russell.
A distinctive feature of the FTSE 100 is how internationally oriented its constituents are: many of the largest names — major banks, miners, oil majors, and consumer-goods companies — earn the majority of their revenue outside the United Kingdom. As a result, the index tends to track global corporate earnings and currency movements (particularly the strength of the British pound, since a weaker pound boosts the reported value of overseas earnings) more closely than it tracks the domestic U.K. economy.
The index is reviewed quarterly, with constituents added or dropped based on market-capitalization rankings against companies in the wider FTSE All-Share universe.
How FTSE 100 Is Priced
FTSE 100 is a market index, not a single tradable security — its value is a weighted average of the prices of the companies or assets it tracks, recalculated continuously as those underlying prices move. Investors can't buy the index directly; exposure typically comes through index funds, ETFs, or futures contracts designed to track it. Because it aggregates many holdings, an index's day-to-day move reflects the combined performance of its constituents rather than any single company's news.