NEW YORK CITY: Stubbornly high UK inflation and worries about future central bank moves to tame rampant consumer prices helped drag down stocks across much of the world on Wednesday.

London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended 0.1 percent lower after official data stoked expectations of another interest-rate hike from the Bank of England that could weigh further on the economy.

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