FTSE highpublished at 06:26 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2015
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Last night's closing high of 6,949.63 for the FTSE 100 can't really be compared with the last record in 1999 due to the different composition of the market, Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown, tells Wake Up to Money. He says it is an "apples and pears comparison" because the majority of stocks are now "oils, miners, and banking" whereas in 1999, the dotcom boom saw the majority of the FTSE composed of telecoms, media and tech firms.