Stronger than expected third quarter results from Friends Provident and yesterday's strong gains in ...
Stronger than expected third quarter results from Friends Provident and yesterday's strong gains in New York helped push the FTSE 100 index up 18 points to 4,152 this morning. FP gained 9p to 135p after reporting strong growth in sales, making it the top gainer, closely followed by Prudential, up 17p to 475.5p after yesterday announcing it was jumping on the MVA bandwaggon and raising the penalties for withdrawing funds from policies. Aviva is up 15p at 513p. The battle to take over one of Australia's leading miners MIM has again boosted Xstrata shares today - they are ...
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