DSG drags FTSE into the red

DSG was the biggest drag on the index with a drop of 7.32% to 202.5p, after it warned of a flat underlying performance for the first half, following weakness in its Italian business, UniEuro. Liberty International was also down with a drop of 5.74% to £13.30, closely followed by International Power which slipped 3.56% to 351.75p, while Vodafone fell 2.73% to 133.5p. Although losses were limited by ICI which posted the biggest gains with a rise of 9.3% to 423p, while miners also performed well with Vedanta Resources up 3.04% to £13.21, while Xstrata climbed 1.71% to £22.66. In the US t...