Following Friday's near 300 points drop, the omens were not good, but the FTSE 100 index has regaine...
Following Friday's near 300 points drop, the omens were not good, but the FTSE 100 index has regained some 34 points to 4,664 so far today after the successful float of bookie William Hill and rising oil stocks on the back of rising crude oil prices. Banks and pharmaceuticals are also making gains. BP is up 6.5p at 530p, while Shell is up 5p at 476p on the oil price news, plus news that an oil workers strike has been averted in Norway after a wage accord was reached. Vodafone is up 1.25p to 92.25p, reversing last week's share price drop to a new near 5-year low below 90p, ...
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