Britain's premier share index rose slightly this morning boosted by bank and
mining stocks - however fears over weak economic growth and spain's debt crisis
held back markets back from significant gains.

The FTSE 100 is trading up 3 points at 58/13.

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Biggest Losers:
Capita plc down 1.87%
Anglo American down 1.79%
Weir Group down 1.28%
IMI plc down 1.26%
Schroders down 1.3%

Biggest risers:
Arm Holdings up 1.56%
Vedanta Reserve up 1.44%
IAG up 1.32%
HSBC holdings up 1.27%
Centrica up 1.25%

On the markets:
IBEX was down 0.48%  
DAX was down 0.01%  
CAC40 down 0.3%     
MIB was up 0.29%   
     
On Wall Street the dow jones is expected to open slightly lower by 0.2%

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On the currency markets, the Pound is down three tenths of a cent at
1-dollar-61 point 0 cents.

The Euro is up one tenths of a penny at 80 point 1 pence

For travellers, the Pound buys 1-dollar-58 point 9 cents, and 1 Euro 23 point
0 cents.

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