FTSE 100 Closes At Over 8000 For The First Time In Its History

FTSE Russell has announced the FTSE 100 reached 8012.53 at market close today, the first time in its history that the index has closed at over 8000.

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Please click here to download daily price history for the FTSE 100 since 16.08.22 from Refinitiv Workspace.

Additionally, please find some facts and figures about the FTSE 100 below:

Return since launch: Price Return: 699.78%, Total Return: 722.30% (as of 15^th Feb 2023)
Largest daily return: 9.84% (Total Return, 24^th Nov 2008)
Smallest daily return: -12.2% (Total Return, 20^th Oct 1987)
Largest Total Return of an original constituent company to now: 6891.1% (British American Tobacco, as of 15^th Feb 2023)
Dates when FTSE 100 first broke each specific threshold:
- 1000: 30/12/1983
- 2000: 04/03/1987
- 3000: 11/08/1993
- 4000: 02/10/1996
- 5000: 06/08/1997
- 6000: 01/04/1998
- 7000: 20/03/2015
- 8000: 16/02/2023
How many original FTSE 100 companies still remain: 23 (as of 15^th Feb 2023):
- British American Tobacco
- Unilever
- Whitbread
- Reckitt Benckiser Group
- RELX
- Associated British Foods
- Legal & General Group
- Rio Tinto
- GSK
- Prudential
- Shell
- Smith & Nephew
- Sainsbury (J)
- BP
- Pearson
- BAE Systems
- Johnson Matthey
- Standard Chartered
- Tesco
- Barratt Developments
- Barclays
- Aviva
- Land Securities Group