FTSE 100 down after recent rally

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;11&sol;City-2-11&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-353" title&equals;"London Stock Banking" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;11&sol;City-2-11&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"200" height&equals;"199" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rolls-Royce shares pulled out of their nosedive as the group said it was making progress on finding the cause of the engine failure that forced a Qantas jet to make an emergency landing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The manufacturing group closed 3&percnt; higher having fallen 4&percnt; in early trading after the chief executive of Qantas said oil leaks were found in three engines on its A380 fleet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The wider FTSE 100 Index paused for breath after last week&&num;8217&semi;s impressive rally&comma; down 25&period;4 points to 5850&comma; although it remained near recent two-year highs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wall Street&&num;8217&semi;s Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 60 points&comma; after its recent surge triggered by the Federal Reserve decision last week to pump a further 600 billion US dollars &lpar;£372 billion&rpar; into the world&&num;8217&semi;s largest economy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The dollar strengthened a little against the pound and euro after slumping following the Fed&&num;8217&semi;s announcement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sterling eased back by 0&period;4&percnt; to 1&period;61 dollars&comma; having reached nearly 1&period;63 dollars last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rolls-Royce provided much of the focus again as its engine drama unfolds&period;The group&&num;8217&semi;s statement helped provide some shares relief &&num;8211&semi; up 16p at 607p &&num;8211&semi; confirming the incident was specific to its Trent 900 engine and assuring that this was the first such failure on one of its large civil engines for 16 years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ahead of Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s interim results and strategy review by chief executive Marc Bolland&comma; Marks &amp&semi; Spencer shares were 4&period;9p higher at 413&period;2p&comma; while Primark owner Associated British Foods added 2p at 1073p ahead of its own figures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Elsewhere&comma; BSkyB rose 8p to 728p after announcing it had reached its target for 10 million television customers before the end of the year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The biggest Footsie risers were Inmarsat up 20p to 695p&comma; Rolls-Royce ahead 16p to 607p&comma; Compass up 13&period;5p to 537p and Cobham up 4&period;6p to 209&period;4p and the biggest Footsie fallers were Royal Bank of Scotland down 1&period;4p to 43&period;6p&comma; Anglo American off 73&period;5p to 2955&period;5p&comma; 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