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Profit taking was seen as a theme across the index, with the FTSE expected to resume its upward path heading into the year end despite the session's losses.

"It is a temporary setback, [for only] a couple or days or so," Valerie Gastaldy at technical analysis firm Day By Day said.Profit taking was seen as a theme across the index, with the FTSE expected to resume its upward path heading into the year end despite the session's losses.