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21-630: Gammell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bill Gammell (born 1952), Scottish sportsman and industrialist James Gammell (1892–1975), British Army officer R. H. Ives Gammell (1893–1981), American muralist, portrait painter, art teacher, and writer on art Ray Gammell , Irish businessman Robin Gammell (born 1936), Canadian film, television and stage actor Stephen Gammell (born 1943), American illustrator of children's books [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

42-557: A r e s i × F r e e   f l o a t   a d j u s t m e n t   f a c t o r i I n d e x   d i v i s o r {\displaystyle \mathrm {Index~level} ={\frac {\sum _{i}\mathrm {Price~of~stock} _{i}\times \mathrm {Number~of~shares} _{i}\times \mathrm {Free~float~adjustment~factor} _{i}}{\mathrm {Index~divisor} }}} The free float adjustment factor represents

63-428: A market capitalisation exceeding £200 billion as of 28 June 2024 . These are pharmaceuticals , oil and gas , metals and mining and banking services , which together account for approximately 46% of the index's capitalisation. On the same date, there were four companies with a market cap exceeding £100 billion: Shell , AstraZeneca , HSBC and Unilever , which together accounted for approximately 30% of

84-549: A BA in Economics and Accountancy. He played for Edinburgh Wanderers . He played for Edinburgh District . He was capped by Scotland 'B' to play France 'B' in 1976 and 1977. He then was given a full senior cap for Scotland in 1977. He went on to earn five international caps in total. He scored two tries on his debut, against Ireland at Murrayfield in 1977, and played against Japan in 1977 in Tokyo when he scored four tries in

105-683: A charity that builds confidence and resilience in young people. In the 2006 New Year Honours list, Gammell was made a Knight Bachelor "for services to Industry in Scotland", and in 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Gammell received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2007, and an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Robert Gordon University in 2011. FTSE 100 The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index , also called

126-520: A company is calculated by multiplying the share price of the company by the total number of shares they have issued. However, many of these are internationally focused companies: therefore the index's movements are a fairly weak indicator of how the UK economy is faring and are significantly affected by the exchange rates of the pound sterling. A better indication of the UK economy is the FTSE 250 Index , as it contains

147-633: A smaller proportion of international companies. Even though the FTSE All-Share Index is more comprehensive, the FTSE ;100 is by far the most widely used UK stock market indicator. Other related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which includes the next largest 250 companies after the FTSE 100), the FTSE ;350 Index (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 and 250), FTSE SmallCap Index and

168-465: Is 10 GBP × index points and is specified as: The index has reached the following record values: The index began on 3 January 1984 at the base level of 1,000. The highest closing value of 8,445.80 was reached on 15 May 2024 and the highest intra-day value of 8,474.71 was also reached on 15 May 2024. The following table shows the annual development of the calculation of the FT 30 Index from 1969 to 1983, and

189-549: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bill Gammell Sir William Benjamin Bowring Gammell FRSE (born 29 December 1952) is a Scottish businessman and former Scotland international rugby union player. Gammell attended Fettes College , where he was friends with future British Prime Minister , Tony Blair . After Fettes, Gammell attended the University of Stirling where he obtained

210-604: The Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange . It is calculated in real time and published every second when the market is open. The FTSE 100 Index with its 100 constituents was launched on 3 January 1984. The market capitalisation weighted FTSE 100 index replaced the price-weighted FT30 Index as the performance benchmark for most investors. The FTSE 100 broadly consists of the largest 100 qualifying UK companies by full market value. The total market value of

231-541: The FTSE 100 Index , FTSE 100 , FTSE , or, informally, the " Footsie " / ˈ f ʊ t s i / , is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of the 100 most highly capitalised blue chips listed on the London Stock Exchange . Founded in 1984 by Stock Exchange to better reflect activity on the market, it replaced the Financial Times ' own FT 30 . A new index allowed Stock Exchange to launch

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252-722: The FTSE Fledgling Index . The FTSE All-Share aggregates the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and FTSE SmallCap. In the FTSE indices, share prices are weighted by free-float capitalisation, so that the larger companies, with more of their stock "floating", make more of a difference to the index than smaller companies. The basic formula for these indices is: I n d e x   l e v e l = ∑ i P r i c e   o f   s t o c k i × N u m b e r   o f   s h

273-477: The options contract derived from the FTSE's real-time data, while competitors LIFFE launched the futures contract . By 1986, Margaret Thatcher 's sweeping financial deregulation and high profile privatisations of index members British Telecom , British Gas , and British Aerospace had culminated in the Big Bang . The combination of a new index, major privatisations, LIFFE tradable derivatives, and promotion by

294-411: The surname Gammell . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gammell&oldid=1107976410 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

315-579: The FTSE 100 since 1984. The following table lists the FTSE 100 companies after the changes on 1 October 2024. All changes are due to market capitalisation unless noted otherwise. Source: "FTSE: FTSE 100 Constituent Changes" ( PDF; 57.9 KB ) The oldest continuous index in the UK is the FT ;30, also known as the Financial Times Index or the FT Ordinary Index ;(FTOI). It

336-512: The Financial Times led to the FTSE 100 becoming the most widely used indicator of whether the UK stock market was rising or falling. In 1987, privatisations continued with British Airways and British Petroleum . The latter concluded on the same day as Black Monday , a crash in which the index fell 21.73% in two days; one of those days is still the index's worst single-day return, –12.22%. The index consists of 32 sectors , four of which had

357-617: The Scots' 74–9 victory. After his rugby career was ended by injury, Gammell founded Cairn Energy in Edinburgh in 1981. Gammell's father invested in US oil company Bush-Overbey, owned by future US President George H. W. Bush . The two families became friends, with George W. Bush attending Gammell's wedding in Glasgow in 1983. Gammell was appointed Cairn's Chief Executive on its initial listing in 1988. In

378-418: The market cap. Each calendar quarter, the FTSE's constituents are reviewed and some companies exit or enter the index, resulting in irregular trading volume and price changes as market participants rebalance their portfolios . The index has trading symbol UKX and is maintained by FTSE Russell , a wholly owned subsidiary of London Stock Exchange Group , which originated as a joint venture between

399-559: The mid-1990s, he led the company in a radical reallocation of its assets, moving out of US and North Sea oil and gas concerns and into neglected fields in South Asia. The company's fortunes soared in 2004, when a field it had bought in 2001 (for $ 7.5 million) from Shell in the Indian province of Rajasthan was found to contain close to 1.1 billion barrels of oil, catapulting it into the FTSE 100 . In 2006, Gammell founded Winning Scotland,

420-520: The percentage of all issued shares that are readily available for trading, rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5%. The free-float capitalisation of a company is its market capitalisation multiplied by its free float adjustment factor. It therefore does not include restricted stocks, such as those held by company insiders. FTSE futures contracts are traded on the Euronext Equities & Index Derivatives (EUREID) exchange. The value of each contract

441-535: Was established in 1935 and nowadays is largely obsolete due to its redundancy. It is similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Average , and companies listed are from the industrial and commercial sectors. Financial sector companies and government stocks are excluded. Of the original constituents, three are currently in the FTSE 100: Tate & Lyle, Imperial Tobacco and Rolls-Royce, although Rolls-Royce has not been continuously listed and Imperial Tobacco

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