It was a brutal day for London-listed stocks, with the FTSE 100 closing down 5% and the domestically focused FTSE 250 falling 4.4%.
JD Sports was the sole gainer on the blue-chip FTSE 100, while just four companies in the FTSE 250 managed to post gains.
The selloff extended across the Atlantic as well. The S&P 500 is down 4%, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has dropped 3.9%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 3.6%.
This marks the largest one-day drop since March 2020, when the index tumbled by over 600 points in a single session. Nearly every FTSE 100 stock ended the day in the red on Friday, with steep losses hitting Rolls-Royce, banking stocks, and miners, according to PA. JD Sports was the only company to record a gain.
European Markets Enter Correction in Worst Trading Day Since 2020
European stocks plunged on Friday, with both the pan-European Stoxx 600 and Germany’s DAX officially entering correction territory—defined as a drop of 10% or more from recent highs.
The selloff was triggered by a wave of retaliatory measures from China in response to the latest tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.
The Stoxx 600 closed down 5.1%, marking its steepest one-day decline since the Covid-driven market crash in 2020. The index is now down nearly 12% from its all-time closing high on March 3, and its weekly loss of over 8% is the worst in five years, as investors flee risk and shift toward safe-haven assets.
Germany’s DAX also confirmed a correction after sliding 5% on the day.
Meanwhile, a key measure of eurozone stock market volatility surged 8.68 points to 34.2—its largest single-day jump in over two years.
Benjamin Ford, a strategist at Macro Hive, remarked:
“There have only been a handful of times when risk aversion has been this extreme—during the global financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.”
FTSE 100 in 2025 graphic. Photograph: PA Graphics/PA
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