HIT HARD

• Analysts said the British economy is likely to suffer in the months ahead as shoppers and tourists shun central London

• Insurance stocks slid in European and US markets as investors sold shares

• Companies that make surveillance and bomb detection equipment saw a huge boost in early trade

• Luxury goods’ firms dropped sharply on bourses from Paris to Milan, with British fashion house Burberry leading the pack

• All theatre shows in London’s West End were cancelled

• Record numbers of visitors deluged British websites as people sought information from news organisations about the blasts

• Several foreign tourists adopted Britons’ stiff upper lip, insisting the attacks would not keep them from visiting London

• Terror attacks or the threat of violence will not stop the 2006 World Cup in Germany, its interior minister Otto Schily said