The UK stockmarket has followed up a challenging 2022 with yet another disappointing year, with the country’s main indices trailing global peers.
Investor appetite has been suppressed by a cocktail of inflationary pressures, interest rate hikes, weak economic growth and geopolitical instability.
The FTSE 100 is down 3.1 per cent since the start of the year, while the FTSE 250 is down by around 1.5 per cent.
By contrast the US S&P 500, Japan’s Nikkei 225 and the Eurostoxx 600 are up 13.9, 26.6 and 3 per cent, respectively, in 2023.
Continuing slump: Having experienced a very challenging 2022, the UK stock market has unsurprisingly had another disappointing year
Both the blue-chip FTSE 100 and mid-cap FTSE 250 indexes have declined in 2023, but which companies have seen the worst shareholder returns, and do they represent good investment opportunities? Here are five of…
