FTSE 100 rises thanks to miners
FTSE 100 rises thanks to miners
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By Matt Hallam. |  |
Tuesday, 06, Oct 2009 10:50
Mining stocks again provided a push for the FTSE 100 as the index rose in the first hour of trading on Tuesday.
At 09:03 BST, the index gained 0.68 per cent or 34.14 points to 5,058.46.
This followed gains last night in the US, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.18 per cent and the S&P 500 up 1.49 per cent.
In Asia overnight, the Hang Seng rose 1.87 per cent, while the Nikkei was more muted up 0.18 per cent.
Sydney's All Ordinaries index rose 0.39 per cent after Reserve Bank of Australia increased interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 3.25 per cent as the central bank starts to eye inflation as a danger.
Australia is now the first major nation to see interest rates rise since the global financial crisis hit.
In Europe this morning the Dax in Frankfurt rose 0.61 per cent and the Cac 40 in Paris gained 0.49 per cent.
Back in London, miners were pushing forward the gains.
Kazakhmys rose 5.19 per cent, Randgold gained 3.96 per cent, Rio Tinto was up 3.02 per cent, Eurasian climbed 3.02 per cent and Xstrata increased by 2.97 per cent.
Meanwhile some of the defensive pharma stocks took a hit.
Shire was down 2.43 per cent, AstraZeneca fell 1.01 per cent and Unilever dropped 0.85 per cent.
Tesco dropped 1.00 per cent - despite pre-tax profits rising 1.5 per cent for the six months to the end of August to £1.42 billion and sales increasing 8.3 per cent to £30.4 billion.