Note: The tables above show how some of the leading UK shares performed during the last trading day.
UK Share Trading
FTSE 100 gained 0.1% or 6.5 points to close at 6,024.0.
Tullow Oil climbed 3.8%, after the company raised its full-year production target and revealed it plans to expand in Sierra Leone and Kenya.
IMI advanced 3.8%, helped by recent bid speculation.
Reckitt Benckiser gained 2.6%, on news that Unilever and Procter & Gamble might be interested in making a bid for the company.
Marks & Spencer rose 2.5%, after Matrix upgraded the stock to “Buy”.
Man Group gained 1.8%, ahead of its trading update, scheduled to be released on Thursday.
Intertek Group lost 2.7%, as Societe Generale downgraded the stock to “Hold” from “Buy”, citing the effects of high wage inflation in China.
Miners, Rio Tinto, Vedanta Resources and Kazakhmys, dropped between 0.8% and 1.3%, amid speculation that China could hike interest rates as soon as this weekend.
Lonmin fell 1.0%, despite a rise in platinum prices.
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