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Welcome to The Motley Fool UK’s home for news about the London Stock Exchange! Here you’ll find our contract writers’ takes on what to watch on the FTSE markets today, along with sortable, real-time data on the LSE’s biggest winners and losers and the shares that are trading the most.

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What is the FTSE?

The Financial Times Stock Exchange, also known as the FTSE, is a share index on the London Stock Exchange. An index tracks changes in price of different buckets of companies or other assets and are an easy way to compare sectors or companies of different sizes to each other.

What is the London Stock Exchange?

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is the largest stock exchange in the United Kingdom. In terms of market capitalisation, it’s one of the oldest exchanges in the world and is the largest in Europe.

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There are more than 1,900 companies on the London Stock Exchange. Here are a few of the most popular:

3i Group (LSE:III)Centrica plc (LSE:SNA)JD Sports Fashion plc (LSE:JD.)
888 Holdings plc (LSE:888)Compass Group plc (LSE:CPG)Kingfisher plc (LSE:KGF)
Admiral Group plc (LSE:ADM)Darktrace plc (LSE:DARK)Legal and General Group plc (LSE:LGEN)
Airtel Africa plc (LSE:AAF)Diageo plc (LSE:DGE)Lloyds Banking Group plc (LSE:LLOY)
Anglo American plc (LSE:AAL)Direct Line Insurance Group plc (LSE:DLG)Marston’s plc (LSE:MARS)
ASOS plc (LSE:ASC)Domino’s Pizza Group plc (LSE:DOM)NatWest Group plc (LSE:NWG)
Astrazeneca plc (LSE:AZN)Experian plc (LSE:EXPN)Persimmon plc (LSE:PSN)
Aviva plc (LSE:AV.)Glencore plc (LSE:GLEN)Rightmove plc (LSE:RMV)
BAE Systems plc (LSE:BA.)GSK plc (LSE:GSK)Rio Tinto (LSE:RIO)
Barclays plc (LSE:BARC)Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LSE:GKP)Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (LSE:RR.)
BHP Group Ltd (LSE:BHP)Haleon plc (LSE:HLN)Shell plc (LSE:SHEL)
Boohoo.com plc (LSE:BOO)HSBC Holdings (LSE:HSBA)Smith & Nephew plc (LSE:SN.)
BP plc (LSE:BP.)Imperial Brands plc (LSE:IMB)Tesco plc (LSE:TSCO)
Britvic Plc (LSE:BVIC)International Consolidated Airlines Group, S.A. (LSE:IAG)TUI AG (LSE:TUI)
BT Group (LSE:BT.A)ITM Power plc (LSE:ITM)Unilever Plc (LSE:ULVR)
Burberry Group plc (LSE:BRBY)J Sainsbury plc (LSE:SBRY)Vodafone Group plc (LSE:VOD)

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