FTSE 100 Breakout? Why U.K. Stocks May Finally Catch Up With Wall Street

For most of the last quarter-century, the FTSE 100 has been a dead duck. Since the dotcom peak around the year 2000, the U.K.’s flagship index has effectively gone sideways for a generation, while U.S. markets – particularly the Nasdaq – have gone vertical. In real terms, and certainly in dollar …