Monday, June 4, 2007

Miners, real estate shares weigh on UK's FTSE

(Reuters) - Britain's leading share index slipped 0.2 percent on Monday, weighed down by miners and real estate stocks while investors geared up for interest rate decisions in the UK and Europe later this week.

Equities markets also took their cue from an 8 percent slump in Chinese shares as investors continued to fret about last week's hike in China's tax on stock trading in order to cool a market that had nearly tripled in value in the past year.


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