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It was a quiet day for travel industry shares yesterday as London’s equity markets got stuck in reverse due to profit-taking by dealers.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index lost 0.8 per cent of its value and fell back 33.4 points to 4217.4, while the FTSE 250 lost 40.3 points to end the day at 5536.8. It was a relatively busy day with 2.7 billion shares changing hands.
Among the airline stocks there was little significant movement – British Airways fell back 3.25p to close at 186p, Easyjet was static at 249p, while Ryanair gained 4.5p to end the day at 446p.
Online retailers saw little movement; ebookers fell back 1.5p to 580p and lastminute.com lost a penny to close at 264p. First Choice Holidays gained 2.75p to end the day at 117.5p, and MyTravel lost three quarters of a penny to close at 26.75p.
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