By Chris Dorrell UK equities will “turn a corner” in 2024 as analysts bet that growing optimism about the UK’s economic prospects would help it perform better relative to global peers. In 2023, the FTSE 100 gained just four per cent while markets around the world posted massive gains, helped by bets that central banks would soon start cutting interest rates. In the US the S&P 500 gained 25 per cent in 2023 while the tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped around 45 per cent. But analysts were hopeful that UK equities would put in a much stronger performance, largely thanks to the surprisingly swift fall in i…