The City's leading shares were in reverse today after Apple and Amazon extended Wall Street's disappointing run of third quarter updates.
The rare failure of the pair to live up to investor expectations, with Apple hit by the cost of new products such as the iPhone5 and Amazon weighed down by spending on its Kindle business, depressed sentiment in Europe.
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