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London midday: Gold shines to push Footsie higher

Date: Tuesday 08 Sep 2009

Gold pushing through the $1,000 per ounce mark has helped Footsie post decent gains in the morning session with miners generally in demand again.

Kazakhmys, Antofagasta, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Xstrata, Randgold Resources and Vedanta Resources lead the mining sector higher. It is third time that gold has...

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KGF - Kingfisher

Kingfisher Chart
Name Value Chg
Abcam 393.25p 2.00p
Anglo American 1,971.00p -12.50p
Antofagasta 1,002.00p -15.00p
Ashtead Group 230.30p 1.10p
Cadbury 862.00p 0.000p
Greene King 489.10p 5.60p
Kazakhmys 665.00p -15.00p
Kingfisher 282.00p 5.70p
National Express Group 188.20p 2.10p
Rio Tinto 2,780.00p -21.00p
Signet Jewelers Ltd. 2,823.00p -3.00p
Smith (DS) 143.20p -0.70p
Soco International 280.70p 2.20p
Stagecoach Group 233.50p -1.60p
Vedanta Resources 929.00p -11.50p
Xstrata 922.50p -16.90p
Name Value Chg
Food Producers & Processors 5,436.92 44.65
General Industrials 2,989.65 -26.12
General Retailers 1,637.52 -1.23
Mining 16,934.23 -147.59
Oil & Gas Producers 7,498.80 1.85
Support Services 4,570.06 0.58
Travel & Leisure 4,404.26 27.27
Name Value Chg
FTSE 100 5,306.95 9.67
FTSE 250 10,545.96 51.14
FTSE 350 2,820.31 6.29
FTSE AIM 100 3,122.06 2.51
FTSE AIM 50 2,933.85 21.99
FTSE AIM All-Share 690.55 -0.87
FTSE All-Share 2,760.62 6.15
FTSEurofirst 300 971.28 -4.58

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