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London's main index fell on Friday as a U.S. air strike in Iraq stoked geop...

Retailer Next , which predicted a higher annual profit due to better-than-expected sales through the Christmas trading period, gave up early gains to trade flat.

Its chief executive officer separately said he does not think Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decisive election victory last month will necessarily lead to an improvement in the consumer environment in 2020. Payment solutions firm Finablr slipped 2% after its unit, Travelex, said on Thursday it had taken all its systems offline after being hit by a software virus.

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