Currency markets endured a couple of blips as the illiquid trading conditions of Christmas week exaggerated the impact of larger trades on foreign exchanges
Dec 30
Investors favoured assets such as Treasuries and the yen in response to the worsening of Europe’s debt crisis and fears about the outlook for the Chinese economy
Dec 30
The FTSE 100, which rallied late in 2011’s final session to crawl up 0.1%, began the year strongly but tumbled more than 11% in four sessions in August
