Stock prices in London closed up on Thursday, as investors first digested words from US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell overnight, before reacting to hotter-than-expected US initial jobless.
Senior Federal Reserve officials are by no means unanimous about the central bank's December forecast showing three cuts in U.S. interest rates in 2024..
Wall Street faced a downturn on Wednesday as US stocks closed in the negative, with the biggest drops coming from the technology-centric Nasdaq Composite.