Footsie (FTSE)

Financial Times (FT)-Actuaries 100 index: in London. Has the stature of the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500 in London.

FTSE 100 Index

An index tracking the 100 publicly-traded companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with the most market capitalization. Like many other FTSE indices, it is calculated in real time, with prices updated every 15 seconds. Each quarter, the FTSE reevaluates the companies tracked on the index and makes necessary adjustments to ensure that it represents the most highly capitalized companies. The FTSE 100 Index is considered a prime indicator of health in the wider market.

Footsie

See FTSE 100 Index.

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Yet Salmond can play footsie with an Australian and an American with billions of pounds at stake and suffer no consequences.

Double standards from Eck and Co. view Your

"This election is a time for voters to choose, not a time for politicians to play footsie with each other.

We aim to rule,not prop up Torris; Clegg damps down talk of post-election pact

Did he ever play footsie with men or boys at a sports bar?

Queering history: Alexander

Seidensticker's consistent refusals to play footsie with successive waves of Japanese intellies and his independent angle toward matters of political correctness (both East and West), his rejection of boosterism in any form, have, for instance, made him an occasional target of those who prefer the myth of Japanese uniqueness to the more mixed and humanly complicated reality.

Tokyo Central: A Memoir.

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