geni writes:
"there are a lot of ftse indexs with the exception of couple of them merging them into one article would be the sensible thing to do."
Yes, I think that's about right. So instead of speedying an article that didn't fall into any CSD, the RC patroller here should probably have tagged it for merge. I don't think he did such a bad thing by speedying, but it doesn't seem like a terribly constructive way to handle valuable information.