UK Stock Market Outlook for Monday 24 November 2025: FTSE 100 Preview, Budget Jitters and Anglo American Deal Talk
London – Sunday 23 November 2025 The UK stock market heads into Monday’s open after one of its choppier weeks since spring, with politics, central banks and commodities all jostling for investors’ attention. On Friday, the FTSE 100 managed to close higher as traders leaned back into expectations of a December interest‑rate cut from the US Federal Reserve. But the blue‑chip index still finished the week down about 1.7%, while the more domestically focused FTSE 250 slid 2.2%, underscoring how fragile sentiment has become ahead of next week’s UK budget. Reuters+1 At the same time, bond markets have been rattled