The downbeat sentiment saw its rival Easyjet see shares fall 8% while British Airways stock slipped by 5%.
That said, there have been signs in the past year that Tesco's costly investment to improve service and stock in British stores has stabilised the business.
In the short period before the government called a halt to take stock, two British universities moved in.
Meanwhile, a poll for the NFU suggested that more than three-quarters of people wanted supermarkets to stock more food from British farms.
Until last year the company was a Siamese twin of British and Dutch corporations, with dual stock listings and dueling boards of directors.
The rebel shareholders are still expected to push for a vote on the delisting at the meeting even though it will be largely irrelevant since British Energy will have already quit the stock market by then.
It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.
Many will remember the awful feeling in the last recession, in the early 1990s - or the 1987 stock market crash, or the British property bubble - where you know nothing fundamental has changed - but people who spent freely before, took chances before, stop doing all those things, and everything slows down, share prices fall - confidence ebbs away.
In England, plans are in place to ease restrictions on companies seeking to raise money on the London Stock Exchange in order to boost the British and European IPO markets.
Nasdaq also tried to buy the London Stock Exchange, but its bid is stalled by British takeover rules, although it does hold a stake of just under 30%.
The stock was buoyed on reports over the weekend in the British newspapers that BP thinks it is two weeks ahead of schedule with its relief well.
He had already sold 22% of his company to British Telecom, and the debt load knocked two thirds off his stock price in the next two years, as a recession cut into revenue growth.
Unfortunately, his explanation of skinhead hatred as mere insanity feels like a cop-out, and protracted stock-footage sequences strain to connect a wider view of British unrest to the intimate story.
Petrofac, an American oil services outfit whose British operations are almost wholly oriented towards the North Sea, listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 and has its headquarters in London.
Now Stephen Pope, a global stock strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in London, has come up with his version of buy British.
British Airways flight attendants went on strike this spring, which might explain why investors are shunning the stock, and Air France stewards were threatening a solidarity strike.
The company's British and American Web sites are down, and its shares have been temporarily suspended from trading on the London Stock Exchange.
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