Rolling live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as the travel industry awaits UK holiday plans
- Jet2 suspends flights to 23 June because of uncertainty
- UK houses go for 6.5% more than at start of pandemic
- Sanjeev Gupta hits out at creditors seeking GFG assets
- FTSE 100 and EU stocks drop after Wall Street records
Wall Street futures weren’t quite a perfect guide: rather than anything steep it was pretty flat at the opening bell.
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Approaching the US open investor sentiment appears to have soured somewhat: futures earlier suggested that Wall Street would gain, but now the S&P 500 is set for a 0.2% decline when it opens in a few minutes.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index is due to fall by 0.7%, if futures are any guide, while the Dow Jones industrial average is set to open roughly flat.
