http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4674897.stm
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For those Americans here that were confused by the reference to "footsie", you should know that
the Financial Times 100 Index, or FTSE (pronounced "footsie"), is the most widely used benchmark for the performance of equities traded on the London Stock Exchange. Kind of like the Dow Jones Industrial Average market index.