The FTSE 100 ended the day behind its European counterparts (Victoria Jones/PA)The FTSE 100 recovery was hampered on Thursday as some of its biggest companies weighed on the index. Unilever was the biggest loser of the day after it announced that its margins would be hurt by higher costs. It led the FTSE 100 down nearly 30 points to 6,968.3. Both rose to near the top of the FTSE 100 after analysts at RBC upgraded Flutter. The biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 were Unilever, down 252.5p to 4,050.5p, United Utilities, down 130p to 2,881p, NatWest, down 5.35p to 194.2p, Reckitt, down 151p to 6,211p, and Rio Tinto, down 125p to 5846p.

Source: Irish Independent July 22, 2021 16:07 UTC