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FTSE 100 Sees Largest Decline Since April Amid Continued Stock Market Sell-Off

The Guardian

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Date Published
17 Nov 2025
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18 Nov 2025, 10:15 am

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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as shares fall across Asia and bitcoin hits a seven-month low

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The article provides an overview of significant downturns in the stock market, with the FTSE 100 experiencing its steepest one-day fall since April, largely attributed to growing concerns about inflated AI valuations and their potential impact on financial stability. This sell-off reflects wider market anxieties, including the recent decline of Bitcoin and broader cryptocurrencies, and uncertainty surrounding major tech firms like Nvidia. While the article touches upon potential risks associated with an AI-driven economic bubble, it does not delve deeply into existential or catastrophic AI risks, nor does it address specific global or Australian AI safety policy initiatives aimed at risk mitigation.

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And finally, Britain’s stock market has recorded its biggest one-day fall since the early days of Donald Trump’s trade war.The blue-chipFTSE100share index has closed down 123 points, or 1.27%, at 9552 points, its lowest closing point since 22 October.That is the index’s biggest one-day drop since 7 April, shortly after Donald Trump announced his swathe of ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs.Engineering companyMelrose(-3.9%), copper producerAntofagasta(-3.7%) and private equity firm3i(-3.6%) led the fallers, on a day in which markets were hit by worries about AI valuations.Asia-Pacific stocks had earlier dipped to a one-month low today, amid signs that the enthusiasm that has driven stocks higher in recent months is fading, with shares, risky currencies and crypto assets all sliding.Fading hopes of a US interest rate cut in December, and anxiety over Nvidia’s results due on Wednesday, were also cited as factors.Here’s our news story about today’s market sell-off:Crypto market sheds more than $1tn in six weeks amid fears of tech bubbleRead moreGoodnight!GW