UK stocks advanced this morning paced by British Sky Broadcasting Group and PowderJect Pharmaceutica...
UK stocks advanced this morning paced by British Sky Broadcasting Group and PowderJect Pharmaceuticals. The benchmark FTSE 100 Index rose 8.3 points, or 0.2%, to 3995.7 and the FTSE All-Share Index gained 0.3% to 1933.26 within the first hour of trading this morning. British Sky Broadcasting Group, BskyB, advanced 15p or 2.2% to 693p, after the company announced its fourth consecutive quarterly gain. Pharmaceutical companies also saw a rise as the vaccine maker PowderJect Pharmaceuticals advanced with 7.5p or 1.5% to 540p. This came after US' third largest biotechnolo...
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