FTSE Stocks Hit 2016 Highs After Brexit Blues

UK stock markets - reeling only six weeks ago after the UK's vote to leave the EU - continued their recovery in dramatic style on Friday by closing at new 2016 highs. The FTSE 100 closed the week's trading with a rise of 0.8% in the final session - investors cheered by further evidence that the world's largest economy was still perky despite global weaknesses. It helped bolster sentiment to further build on stock market gains of the previous day, which were a reaction to the Bank of England's st