(Bloomberg) -- While the FTSE 100 Index recorded its highest-ever close this week and is poised for its best annual gain since 2013, the slump in the pound has made the rally a strictly local affair. International investors have come up short in the year Britons voted to leave the European Union as the benchmark still hovers below pre-Brexit levels in dollar and euro terms, and is down since the end of 2015.
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