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Financial Times Stock Exchange - Definition and Overview

The Financial Times Stock Exchange Index of 100 Leading Shares, or FTSE 100 Index (pronounced footsie), is a share index of the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The index is seen as a barometer of success of the British economy and is the leading share index in Europe. It is maintained by the FTSE Group, which originated as a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange.

Related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which lists the next largest 250 companies), the FTSE 350 Index (which combines the FTSE 100 and 250), and the FT All Share Index (which quotes all listed companies).

The constituents of the index are determined quarterly; the largest companies in the FTSE 250 Index are promoted if their market capitalisations would place them in the top 90 firms of the FTSE 100 Index. As of 2004, the threshold for inclusion is about 2 billion pounds. The largest 5 companies in the index are BP, HSBC Holdings, the Vodafone Group, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and GlaxoSmithKline.

Most of the companies listed on this index usually include the abbreviation plc at the end of their name, indicating their status of public limited company.

List of FTSE 100 Index Companies

(updated 30 December 2004)
  1. 3i
  2. Alliance & Leicester
  3. Alliance Unichem
  4. Allied Domecq
  5. Amvescap
  6. Anglo American plc
  7. Antofagasta
  8. Associated British Foods
  9. AstraZeneca plc
  10. Aviva
  11. BAA plc
  12. BAE Systems
  13. Barclays Bank
  14. BG Group
  15. BHP Billiton
  16. The BOC Group
  17. Boots Group
  18. BP
  19. British Airways
  20. British American Tobacco
  21. British Land Company
  22. British Sky Broadcasting
  23. BT Group
  24. Bunzl
  25. Cable & Wireless
  26. Cadbury Schweppes
  27. Cairn Energy
  28. Capita Group
  29. Carnival
  30. Centrica
  31. Compass Group
  32. Corus
  33. Daily Mail & General Trust
  34. Diageo
  35. Dixons Group
  36. Emap
  37. Enterprise Inns
  38. Exel
  39. Friends Provident
  40. Gallaher Group
  41. GlaxoSmithKline
  42. GUS
  43. Hanson
  44. Hays
  45. HBOS
  46. Hilton Group
  47. HSBC Holdings
  48. Imperial Chemical Industries
  49. Imperial Tobacco Group
  50. InterContinental Hotels Group
  51. ITV
  52. J Sainsbury
  53. Johnson Matthey
  54. Kingfisher
  55. Land Securities Group
  56. Legal & General
  57. Liberty International
  58. Lloyds TSB Bank
  59. Man Group
  60. Marks and Spencer
  61. mmO2
  62. Wm Morrison Supermarkets
  63. National Grid Transco
  64. Next
  65. Northern Rock
  66. Old Mutual
  67. Pearson
  68. Prudential
  69. Reckitt Benckiser
  70. Reed Elsevier
  71. Rentokil Initial
  72. Reuters Group
  73. Rexam
  74. Rio Tinto
  75. Rolls-Royce Group
  76. Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  77. Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance
  78. SABMiller
  79. Sage Group
  80. Schroders
  81. Scottish & Newcastle
  82. Scottish & Southern Energy
  83. Scottish Power
  84. Severn Trent
  85. Shell Transport & Trading Company
  86. Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
  87. Smith & Nephew
  88. Smiths Group
  89. Standard Chartered
  90. Tesco
  91. Tate and Lyle
  92. Unilever
  93. United Utilities
  94. Vodafone Group
  95. Whitbread
  96. William Hill
  97. Wolseley
  98. WPP Group
  99. Xstrata
  100. Yell Group


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