London stocks were set to drop at the open on Thursday, tracking weakness on Wall Street after the latest Federal Reserve minutes revealed that the US central bank wants to keep lifting short-term interest rates gradually this year. The FTSE 100 was called to open 71 points lower at 7,210. David Madden, market analyst at CMC Markets, said: "US equity markets finished in the red last night after the minutes from the Federal Reserve meeting in January showed that economic sentiment was picking ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...