BY 1pm on Thursday, FTSE 100 bosses will have earned the median full-time worker’s annual wage, the High Pay Centre said.

FTSE 100 bosses will have earned more than average UK annual salary by lunchtime

The Bank of England, (left) and the Royal Exchange, London. Picture date: Thursday September 29, 2022.

The French stock market now has a combined value of 2.823 trillion US dollars, marginally above the UK stock market’s 2.821 trillion US dollars.

Paris overtakes London to become Europe's biggest stock market 

Nearly £150 billion has been wiped off London's top index as markets.

An oil price war has sent stock markets across the world plunging at a time they were already suffering due to the effects of coronavirus.


More than £210 billion has been wiped off the value of shares in London's FTSE 100 since the start of the week.

The FTSE fell at its fastest rate in more than four years.

Rattled investors could signal a slowdown in quantitative easing and 'cheap money'.

Dropping 1%, the FTSE 100 index is now at levels not seen since 2012.

Glencore Xstrata - the only FTSE 100 firm without a woman on its board - has vowed to appoint a female director by the end of 2014.