FTSE lacks Friday feeling

Alliance & Leicester, down 41p to 607p and Kingfisher, down 9.5p, or 5.19%, to 173.6p had particularly poor days. The fightback was led by Vedanta Resources, up 77p, or 3.88%, to £20.60, 3i Group, up 25p to £10.44 and Scottish & Southern Energy, up 35 points, or 2.2%, to £16.25. In the US, the Dow Jones climbed 47.47 points, or 0.36%, to 13157.52. Hewlett Packard was the day’s top winner, climbing 0.95 points to 49.85. It was followed by McDonalds, up 1.06 points to 58.24, and AT&T, up 0.72 points to 40.09. However, Honeywell, down 1.14 points to 55.77, and JPMorgan Chase, down 0.84 poi...