British Telecom gained 1.8% in early trading to erase yesterdays drop and lift the Footsie. The p...
British Telecom gained 1.8% in early trading to erase yesterdays drop and lift the Footsie. The phone company said it will share wireless equipment in Germany and the UK with Deutsche Telekom AG, and its shares immediately rose 7.5p to 433. The Footsie gained 10.40 points to 5870.9. Other shares to improve this morning included BP Plc and Shell Transport and Trading Co. after crude rose to a three-week high. BP, the world's third-largest publicly traded oil company, rose 6.5p to 646.5. Shell, which owns 40% of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, gained 6p to 639. Together the stocks added ove...
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