Travel firms drag down FTSE after Brussels explosions

Attacks on airport and metro station

Travel firms are among the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index this morning, after two explosions at an airport and a metro station in Brussels left multiple casualties.

Some of the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index this morning were airlines International Airlines Group and easyJet, trading 3.3% and 3.1% lower, respectively. Other travel-related stocks TUI, InterContinental Hotels Group and Carnival are also down by 3%, 1.8% and 2.2%, respectively. The wider blue-chip index is trading 0.4% lower at 6,162, while the FTSE 250, which includes travel firm Thomas Cook and airline Ryanair, is around 0.1% lower at 16,847. In Europe, the Euro Stoxx 50 and German DAX are both trading around 0.4% lower, while the Belgian index BEL 20 is down 0.3% at 3,4...