Market keeps pushing up

The US Congress was closed down for four days to take stock of just who may have been affected by Anthrax as the number of confirmed cases rose by nearly 30 in the past 24 hours, but that still could not dampen the positive mode in London as the FTSE 100 index closed up by 120 points. That brings the index back up to 5,203.4 points, continuing the gains made during the past month. And the gains were widespread, some 84 stocks in the index making gains through the day against just 15 that lost ground. Technology again led the way, with software companies Logica and Sage boundin...