The UK’s benchmark stock index has reached another all-time high, in a month of record breaking.
The FTSE 100 index of most valuable companies on the London Stock Exchange closed at 8,666.65, breaking the record set on Thursday night after four consecutive days of rises.
January has been the best month in more than two years for the FTSE 100.
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Not since November 2022, during a stock market rebound after the Liz Truss’s mini-budget, has the top flight index performed so well.
It comes as investors have looked to move away from tech stocks after new Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot Deepseek proved such technology can be created with less investment and more quickly than its US rivals.
Those companies developing AI had soared in value in…
