Anglo American performs well on FTSE

WPP Group, the world's second-largest advertising company, increased third-quarter revenue by 3.8% as clients, including HSBC, and Microsoft increased spending. The company increased its shares by 16p to 539.50p. Mining firm Anglo American is up as much as 36p today to £12.32, while HBOS was also a good performer up 18p to 730p. William Hill is a big loser, dropping 13p to 480.5p. BP also lost 6.5p to 531p despite a third quarter profit rise of 53%, because of record crude prices and an increase in its forecast for 2005 capital spending. In the US this afternoon, stocks on the Dow J...