Wall Street looked set to end the day and the decade in the red after encouraging jobs data renewed concerns over interest rate hikes next year
Dec 31
The FTSE 100 re-took the 5,400 mark at the start of the last, shortened session of 2009, re-establishing the winter rally which allowed the index to return to levels last seen before the collapse of Lehman Brothers
Dec 31
The few European markets that opened on the final day of the year edged up slightly on very thin volumes
