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FTSE 100 edged up 0.1% to a 52-week high

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-05 · market close

FTSE 100 closed at 10,888.30 on 2026-08-05, edged up 0.1% on the session and is +9.6% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The FTSE 100 closed 5 August at 10,888.3, up 0.08% on the day — barely more than a flat session for the UK's large-cap benchmark.

That flat day left the index just under its own ceiling. The close sat 0.2% below the 52-week high of 10,910.6 and 19.71% above the 52-week low of 9,095.7. It also held above both of the trend lines traders watch most often: the 50-day moving average at 10,544.83 and the 200-day at 10,237.06 (a moving average is simply the average close over that many sessions). Over the past month the index added 2.09%, over three months 5.95%, and it was up 9.64% for the calendar year to date. The one soft patch was the past week, down 0.18%.

The peer readings do not all share a date, so each describes that market's most recent close, not one synchronised global session. Among those that also last closed on 5 August, the Dow rose 0.75%, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.14% and the Nasdaq fell 0.64%. Continental Europe was mixed and muted: the CAC 40 added 0.03%, the DAX lost 0.29% and the Euro Stoxx 50 eased 0.15%. In India the Sensex gained 0.19% and the Nifty 50 0.04%. The Asia-Pacific numbers are a session older, dated 4 August, and were the livelier set: the KOSPI rose 1.62% and the ASX 200 1.4%, with Shanghai up 0.33% and the Nikkei up 0.32%, against a 0.6% fall in the Hang Seng and a 0.06% dip in the TAIEX.

The headline flow pulled in opposite directions rather than settling into one story. Marketscreener carried a report that the FTSE 100 recovered despite an intensifying Iran war, while Investing.com Nigeria reported stocks falling as a Houthi strike and Iranian warnings weighed on hopes over the Strait of Hormuz. Yahoo Finance UK reported stocks mostly higher, tracking earnings and US-Iran hopes. On individual names, Reuters reported a day earlier that the index dipped as AstraZeneca slid on tie-up talks with Bristol Myers, and the Wall Street Journal reported that Next PLC shares rose after the retailer raised its full-year guidance. Older coverage from the Financial Times and Fidelity described the index reaching a record high the previous week.

None of that resolves into a single identifiable driver for a 0.08% move, and the data here does not establish one. What it shows is an index 0.2% from its 52-week high, above both moving averages, and roughly flat over the past week — a strong position on the longer measures, in a session carrying almost no information of its own.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.