Britain does better, but not much: five of the FTSE-100 firms have female bosses.
Software firm Autonomy and logistics group Exel are to drop out of the FTSE-100 following the blue-chip index's quarterly reshuffle.
The FTSE-100 blue chip index took heart from the stronger opening in the US and closed up 79.4 points or 1.3% at 6, 074 points.
Mark Makepeace, FTSE chief executive said the number of changes announced on Wednesday were in marked contrast to the review held a year ago when a record nine changes were made to the FTSE-100.
Broughton's compensation is calculated according to a series of comparisons (applied in various ways to the different components of his compensation package) with other British multinationals and also with with similar fast-moving consumer goods companies and other FTSE-100 companies.
But in a lecture on what he's learned about innovation, Mike Lynch - who's the founder of another Cambridge technology success story, Autonomy - bemoaned the fact that all the brilliant work done by the university's scientists had failed to translate into many big hitters in the FTSE-100.
There was a muted reaction to the governor's comments on the stock markets, with the FTSE 100 - which lists the leading 100 companies traded on the London Stock Exchange - rising by 0.3%.
To make things worse for Freeserve's self-esteem, another FTSE 100 company - Woolwich bank - is set to leave the stock market listings for good on Tuesday, but Freeserve cannot sneak back in to take its place.
The day's main debate is led by the Democratic Unionist Party, on the subject of suicide prevention in the UK. While over in Westminster Hall (from 9.30am) there are more backbench debates - watch out for the 11am debate on tax transparency in FTSE 100 companies - led by the Conservative Stephen McPartland.
Mike Lenhoff, a stock market strategist who is also from Brewin Dolphin, is optimistic about prospects for European equities for the rest of 2009 and has a year-end target of 5, 000 points for Britain's FTSE 100 all-share index, a level it has hovered around for the last month.
There are currently only two FTSE 100 companies - Burberry and Imperial Tobacco - with female chief executives, after Cynthia Carroll left mining giant Anglo-American and Dame Marjorie Scardino retired from the top job at media firm Pearson last year.
The CEO of a British company in the FTSE index of 100 blue-chip companies tells of his experience at the most recent annual gathering of shareholders.
In the last year, 27% of board-level appointments at FTSE 100 companies have gone to female applicants, but one in 10 of Britain's biggest firms still have all-male boards.
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This was the day it was announced that the UK economy had shrunk by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012, yet the FTSE 100 closed at a four-and-a-half-year high, having had the best start to the year in two decades.
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In Britain shares in the FTSE 100 index trade on an historic price-earnings ratio of less than ten and yield 5%, around three-quarters of a percentage point more than government bonds.
It would be a bit like instructing all FTSE 100 companies to build new factories in Britain - not an instruction that would carry much force with private companies.
I've chosen to find it comforting - a reminder that the companies in the FTSE 100 only make about 20% of their sales in the UK. So our companies can do well from growth in other parts of the world, even when the domestic economy is flat.
Paris' CAC-40 rose 2 percent, London's FTSE 100 1.2 percent and Frankfurt's DAX 1.9 percent.
Britain's FTSE 100 declined 0.5%, France's CAC-40 was off by 0.3% and Germany's DAX edged down 0.2%.
In London, the FTSE 100 share index closed at 6, 222.5 points - a loss of 10.2% over the past 12 months.
The FTSE 100 has been reaching fresh highs on the back of money-printing measures by central banks, including the Bank of England, which have cut the price of government debt and sent equities rocketing.
On Tuesday afternoon in Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 was down 1.3%, France's CAC-40 was down 1.1%, and Germany's DAX was down 0.9%.
But on Friday, Britain's FTSE 100 closed 2.3% higher, France's CAC-40 had risen 3.0% and Germany's DAX ended the day 2.4% higher.
Oil giants BP Amoco and Shell also fell sharply, carving 19 points from the FTSE 100 as a dip in crude prices sparked a bout of profit-taking.
Europe's 50 leading shares were up 0.4% at 2, 442.14 points on Tuesday afternoon, with a mixed performance among the region's main indexes: Britain's FTSE 100 was down 0.3% while France's Cac-40 was flat and Germany's Dax rose 0.8%.
The falls weighed on the market, and the FTSE 100 Index closed up just 11.8 points at 5164.9 - after earlier surging by 126 points.
Once the fault was finally fixed the FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell some 120 points to 6, 307 - its lowest point for more than two months.
Over in the Lords (from 11am), questions to ministers cover action to encourage women and girls to take part in sport, the under-representation of women, especially black and ethnic minority women, on FTSE 100 boards, and the action plan for ending violence against women and girls in schools.
At midday in Europe, the DAX in Frankfurt was off 2.36%, the FTSE 100 in London was down 1.80% and France's CAC-40 had fallen 2.17%.
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.
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