More damningly, they are the only two innovative tech outfits in the FTSE index of leading shares.
The fund had performed impressively, beating the FTSE index by five percentage points.
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The FTSE index of shares in our biggest 100 companies ended the year lower than it started - only the third time since l980 that has happened.
Of the 31 retail sector REITs (in the FTSE NAREIT Index), the overall average dividend yield is 3.1 percent and the combined retail sector market capitalization is 135.35 billion or around 26 percent of the overall capitalization of the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REIT Index.
The latter, of course, is in the process of dropping the MSCI index in favor of the FTSE Emerging Index.
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The FTSE 100 index, a proxy for the share price performance of FTSE 100 shares, is still not back to where it was 11 years ago, during which time the average pay of FTSE 100 bosses has more than trebled.
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Italy's FTSE MIB index fell 4.7%, while London's FTSE 100 shed 1.5% and share markets in Frankfurt and Paris also fell more than 2%.
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Italy's FTSE MIB index intially fell 4.7%, while London's FTSE 100 shed 1.5% and share markets in Frankfurt and Paris also fell more than 2%.
The stock surge comes less than three weeks before FTSE stock index chiefs will do the quarterly review of membership in the elite FTSE 100 league of the UK's top listed firms.
Spain's IBEX 35 stock index sank 3% to a three-year low, while Italy's FTSE MIB index plunged 5%.
The IBEX 35 index climbed 2.7% to 7063.20 in Madrid, while the FTSE MIB index bounced 2.6% to 14275.35.
Among other benchmarks, the French CAC 40 index added 0.6% to 3237.69, and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 index firmed 0.7% to 5634.74.
London's FTSE 100 index retreated 1.9%, Frankfurt's DAX tumbled 2.7% and Paris's CAC-40 fell 2.5%.
The broader FTSE 250 index has been doing better, in dollar terms, for a while.
The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was 0.7 percent higher at 6, 326.
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index closed up 0.5%, at 5777.11, edging up 0.1% on the week.
In the past two months, the FTSE 250 index is up just over 5%.
Italy's FTSE MIB index declined 0.6% after its November industrial output fell more than expected.
The FTSE 100 index lost 1% to 5513.69, but was up 0.6% on a weekly basis.
Italy's FTSE MIB index slid 0.7%, and the country's government bond prices fell, pushing yields higher.
In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed 73.79 points, or 1.9 percent, higher at 3, 926.38.
In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares finished the day up 3.5% or 205.3 points at 6, 064.2.
While Unilever is lagging behind the FTSE 100 Index this year, it outperformed the market by 16% last year.
Italy's FTSE MIB index rose 0.7%, and the Stoxx Europe 600 shed 0.1%.
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