Early gains among financials and miners helped boost the FTSE up 27.43 points (0.50%) to 5482.80 in early trading.
London Stock Exchange Group gained 2.19% to 700p a share, followed by Lloyds Banking Group, which rose 1.76% to 57.78p. Miners Randgold Resources and Kazakhmys also performed well, rising 1.49% to 5110p and 1.35% to 1429p respectively. Meanwhile, International Power made the biggest gains of 4.97% to 338p following reports French power giant GDF Suez has made a takeover approach to the group. IT firms took a tumble with satellite provider Inmarsat making the biggest losses down 1.69% to 670.50p a share. Aerospace and defence technology provider Cobham fell 0.92% to 236.80p a share and...
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