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London close: Footsie clings on to gains

Date: Tuesday 08 Sep 2009

London close: Footsie clings on to gains

Leading London shares closed mixed, with strong gains on resource stocks counter-balanced by losses on life assurance stocks.

Kazakhmys, Antofagasta, Rio Tinto, Xstrata and Vedanta Resources led the mining sector higher, as metal prices improved. Gold miners Fresnillo and Randgold Resources were wanted after the price...

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FRES - Fresnillo

Fresnillo 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
Aviva 261.50p -2.40p
BAE Systems 272.80p 0.60p
BG Group 1,242.50p 18.50p
Cadbury 862.00p 0.000p
Cairn Energy 285.50p -3.00p
Fresnillo 1,348.00p 41.00p
Greene King 489.10p 5.60p
InterContinental Hotels Group 1,526.00p 88.00p
International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (CDI) 138.70p -1.60p
Kazakhmys 665.00p -15.00p
Kingfisher 282.00p 5.70p
Legal & General Group 110.40p 0.50p
Old Mutual 141.60p 0.70p
Petrofac Ltd. 1,547.00p 5.00p
Pixel Interactive Media 11.00p 0.000p
Prudential 678.00p 5.00p
RSA Insurance Group 98.80p -0.25p
Randgold Resources Ltd. 5,195.00p 90.00p
Redstone 0.79p 0.000p
Regency Mines 1.75p -0.100p
Rio Tinto 2,780.00p -21.00p
Sefton Resources Inc. 1.78p -0.050p
Smith (DS) 143.20p -0.70p
Soco International 280.70p 2.20p
Vedanta Resources 929.00p -11.50p
Xstrata 922.50p -16.90p
Name Value Chg
Aerospace and Defence 3,569.94 -0.87
Food Producers & Processors 5,436.92 44.65
General Industrials 2,989.65 -26.12
General Retailers 1,637.52 -1.23
Insurance (non-life) 1,357.08 -18.64
Life Insurance 3,785.60 3.71
Media 4,034.71 -53.37
Mining 16,934.23 -147.59
Oil & Gas Producers 7,498.80 1.85
Oil Equipment, Services & Distribution 22,770.18 -214.67
Support Services 4,570.06 0.58
Technology Hardware & Equipment 681.34 -0.44
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
techMARK 1,953.83 26.59
techMARK 100 2,180.98 34.52

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