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0.54%WM 4.65 20.10%
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The FTSE 100 share index was up early on Wednesday. By 9:06am the index had risen 8.9 points to 6,220.7 (up 0.1 per cent).
Miners were performing well with Anglo American and Rio Tinto up 1.9 per cent, BHP Billiton up 3.4 per cent and Vedanta Resources up 2.8 per cent.
Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley dropped 9.3 per cent following news of a £300 million rights issue. Banks Alliance & Leicester and Barclays also fell 4.0 and 1.3 per cent respectively.
Transport company FirstGroup had a poor start to the day, with share values falling 7.7 per cent. Property company Land Securities also fell 0.14 per cent, while supermarket J Sainsbury fell 2.8 per cent.
Gold experienced a second day of heavy liquidations, following yesterday oil-led and hawkish Fed-induced rout. Significant losses in the euro wer...
"The Dark Knight" made a historical worldwide record of $199.655 million in ticket sales during its first weekend at the theaters, Warn...
Swedish specialty steelmaker SSAB reported second-quarter pretax profit above market expectations on Thursday and said the global steel market sh...
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