Towards lunchtime on Friday the FTSE 100 was relatively flat, creeping up 15 points to 5225. Ga...
Towards lunchtime on Friday the FTSE 100 was relatively flat, creeping up 15 points to 5225. Gainers outweighed losers but weakness in the oil sector stifled the FTSE 100's advance – a theme that has dominated the week and left London's leading index tightly range bound. City sentiment was lifted though by actions taken by the US yesterday to try and forge a halt to fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinians. Leading FTSE 100 gainers was Lattice with a rise of 7p to 175p. Other notable gainers included British Airways, up 8p to 242p and tech stocks Logica and Arm improve...
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