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🦶 Secret foot touching 📈 UK stock index
footsie

footsie

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A measure of how well the UK's biggest companies are doing on the stock market, called the FTSE 100
  • noun
  • /ˈfʊtsi/
  • Jargon
: FTSE 100
  • Footsie?

So my tests in this index that I've, you know, created with Footsie Russell looks at the balance sheet.

Examples

  • Many analysts expect the Footsie to recover after a rough start to the year.

  • The latest report showed that the Footsie has been fluctuating due to global economic concerns.

  • Investors are closely watching the Footsie as it reacts to changes in interest rates.

Surface Forms

footsie singular
footsies plural

Etymology

Footsie is also a friendly nickname for the UK stock index FTSE 100 because the letters FTSE are said 'foot-see', and that sound turned into the easy name 'footsie'. So when people say the footsie they mean the main UK market index.