The FTSE 100 index closed up 59.40 points, or 0.6%, at 9,756.14.

It comes in a week when interest rate decisions went mostly as expected.

The FTSE 100 index closed up 19.74 points, 0.2%, at 9,228.11.

The Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate and the United States’s Federal Reserve is expected to do the same.

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The FTSE closed up 46.09 points, 0.5%, at 8,972.64.

Earlier in the week, US President Donald Trump announced a new August 1 deadline for negotiations on tariffs.

The FTSE 100 index closed up 47.65 points, 0.5%, at 8,854.18.

The FTSE 100 index closed down 16.38 points, 0.2%, at 8,806.53.

The FTSE 100 index closed up 11.27 points, 0.1%, at 8,864.35.