Travel firms drag down FTSE after Brussels explosions

Attacks on airport and metro station

Laura Dew
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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...

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