{"id":130496,"title":"FTSE 100 treads water as BoE rate cut looms and US tech sells off","publisher":"Share Talk","author":"sharetalk","published":"2025-12-18T07:29:12+00:00","modified":"2025-12-18T07:29:36+00:00","canonical_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/ftse-100-treads-water-as-boe-rate-cut-looms-and-us-tech-sells-off/","markdown_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/ftse-100-treads-water-as-boe-rate-cut-looms-and-us-tech-sells-off.md","json_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/ftse-100-treads-water-as-boe-rate-cut-looms-and-us-tech-sells-off.json","category":"Blogs","categories":["Blogs","Technology","Technology, Media & Telecoms"],"tags":["Bank of England","capex","china","chinese","CME Group exchange","COMEX","COPPER","Crude prices","Donald Trump","FTSE 100","FTSE 250","Gold","Inflation","mid-cap","refiners","smelters","USA"],"featured_image":"https://i0.wp.com/www.share-talk.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FTSE-100-11_12_23.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&quality=89&ssl=1","format":"news","language":"en-GB","content":"The [FTSE 100](https://www.share-talk.com/ftse-100-heads-for-best-year-since-the-financial-crisis/) is expected to open little changed on Thursday, with investors bracing for a widely anticipated Bank of England rate cut later in the day.\n\nFutures suggest the London index will add around a point at the open, after rising 89.5 points on Wednesday to close at 9,774.3.\n\nOvernight, US stocks fell sharply again, led by another sell-off in technology. The Nasdaq slid 1.8% and the S&P 500 dropped 1.2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5%.\n\nOracle shares sank nearly 6% amid renewed concerns about funding linked to its AI strategy, dragging other AI-related names lower — Nvidia and Broadcom each fell around 4%, and Alphabet lost more than 3%.\n\nIn Asia, markets were mixed, with Japan’s Nikkei down 1% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng off 0.2%, while mainland Chinese and Indian stocks edged slightly higher."}