Blue-chip shares fall back as hat-trick of gains ends

THREE days of gains on the London market came to an end yesterday as blue-chip shares fell back.

A spate of downbeat updates and a weak start in the US saw the FTSE 100 Index close down 57.9 points at 4,368.9.

On Wall Street, both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and tech-laden Nasdaq were trading lower at London’s close.