March 31, 2008 - London’s FTSE 100 index closed at 5702.1, off 11.9 per cent for the first three months of the year = the index’s worst opening quarter since it was launched 24 years ago on January 3, 1984 (3Q 2000 -fell 20%).
Reasons - subprime crisis, slowing housing market (Building Society reported 5th consecutive drop in housing prices), consumer confidence in the UK is at its lowest for 15 years (data from pollsters GfK/NOP showed the confidence worsened for a seventh month in a row, lowest level since 1993).
(source: http://ichart.europe.yahoo.com/c/5y/_/_ftse)
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