What does FTSE Stand For

Wondering what FTSE stands for? Read on to find out.
FTSE stands for Financial Times Stock Exchange. The newspaper, Financial Times developed FTSE 100, which includes a list of the 100 largest companies rated according to their market value. The FTSE 100 index is a share index that holds the 100 most highly capitalized companies enlisted by the London Stock Exchange. The FTSE group, a company that evolved with the joined efforts of the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange. There are other FTSE indexes covering smaller companies or greater number of companies

What are FTSE 100 Companies?
The FTSE 100 companies represent around 80% of the market capitalization of the London Stock Exchange. FTSE 100 is widely used in the United Kingdom. Here is a list of the FTSE 100 companies.
  • 3i
  • Admiral Group
  • Alliance Trust
  • AMEC
  • Anglo American
  • Antofagasta
  • Associated British Foods
  • AstraZeneca
  • Autonomy Corporation
  • Aviva
  • BAE Systems
  • BG Group
  • BHP Billiton
  • BP
  • BT Group
  • Barclays Bank
  • British Airways
  • British American Tobacco
  • British Energy Group
  • British Land Company
  • British Sky Broadcasting Group
  • Bunzl
  • Cable & Wireless
  • Cadbury plc
  • Cairn Energy
  • Capita Group
  • Carnival
  • Centrica
  • Cobham
  • Compass Group
  • Diageo
  • Drax Group
  • Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation
  • Experian
  • FirstGroup
  • Fresnillo
  • Friends Provident
  • G4S
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • HBOS
  • HSBC
  • Hammerson
  • ICAP
  • Imperial Tobacco
  • Inmarsat
  • InterContinental Hotels Group
  • International Power
  • Invensys
  • Johnson Matthey
  • Kazakhmys
  • Kingfisher
  • Land Securities Group
  • Legal & General
  • Liberty International
  • Lloyds TSB
  • London Stock Exchange Group
  • Lonmin
  • Man Group
  • Marks & Spencer
  • Wm Morrison Supermarkets
  • National Grid
  • Next
  • Old Mutual
  • Pearson
  • Petrofac
  • Prudential
  • RSA Insurance Group
  • Reckitt Benckiser
  • Reed Elsevier
  • Rexam
  • Rio Tinto Group
  • Rolls-Royce Group
  • Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Royal Dutch Shell
  • SABMiller
  • Sage Group
  • J Sainsbury
  • Schroders
  • Scottish and Southern Energy
  • Severn Trent
  • Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
  • Smith & Nephew
  • Smiths Group
  • Stagecoach Group
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • Standard Life
  • Tesco
  • Thomas Cook Group
  • Thomson Reuters
  • TUI Travel
  • Tullow Oil
  • Unilever
  • United Utilities
  • Vedanta Resources
  • Vodafone
  • WPP Group
  • Whitbread
  • Wolseley
  • Wood Group
  • Xstrata

By Manali Oak
Published: 10/26/2008
 
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