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By Lars Mucklejohn London’s FTSE 100 ticked down on Monday amid a deluge of economic data that spurred traders to trim their bets on UK interest rate cuts. The bluechip index ticked down 0.05 per cent to 7,611.71, while the FTSE 250, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, fell 0.70 per cent to 19,038.94. Latest figures from theOffice for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that the unemployment rate has been falling over the past few months, in a sign of the continued tightness of the UK’s labour market. Previous “experimental” estimates, which used up-to-date administrative da…