FTSE
English
Etymology
A joint venture between the Financial Times of London and the London Stock Exchange.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfʊt.si/
- Homophone: footsie
Proper noun
FTSE
- (London's) Financial Times and Stock Exchange.
- 2021 February 24, Hannah Ziady, “All-male boardrooms are a thing of the past at Britain’s top companies”, in CNN Business[1]:
- “It’s hard to believe that as recently as 2011, 43% of the FTSE 350 [index] still had all-male boards,” Mary O’Connor, acting senior partner at KPMG UK, said in a statement.
- (stock market, by extension) The main stock market index code for the British stock market.
- (informal) The FTSE 100 Index.
- Synonym: (slang) Footsie