UK Stock Market Week Ahead: FTSE 100 Braces for Bank of England Decision After Weak GDP and Fed Cut (15–19 December 2025)
London’s stock market heads into the final full trading week before Christmas with a familiar combination of catalysts: a Bank of England (BoE) rate decision, fresh UK inflation and jobs data, and global risk sentiment shaped by the US Federal Reserve’s latest cut — plus renewed “AI angst” that rattled Wall Street late last week. The FTSE 100 finished Friday at 9,649.03, while investors weighed a surprise UK GDP contraction against rising conviction that borrowing costs will fall again in the days ahead. Sharecast+1 What happened across 8–14 December 2025 (including market-moving headlines through Friday’s close and weekend previews) sets up a high-stakes “macro-to-micro”