The FTSE 100 ended the week lower, with markets in Europe and the US also down, following economic data releases in the Eurozone and America on Friday that pointed interest to rate cuts.
Wall Street traders digested news that the US economy added fewer jobs than expected last month, according to official figures released on Friday.
US firms added 142,000 jobs during August, up from a downwardly revised 89,000 the previous month and below expectations that 165,000 workers would be added to non-farms payrolls, the Labour Department said.
The figure raises bets that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by half a percentage point later this month. Wall Street investors now believe that the US Federal Reserve will slash US interest rates by half a percentage point at its next meeting, on 17 and 18 September.
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