Investing.com - U.K. equities started with gains on Wednesday, with rises nearly in all sectors, the most notable ones being the Mining, Industrial Metals & Mining, Media, Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors. Industrial Transportation and General Industrials were among the few that fell.
At the market open in London, the FTSE 100 Index rose 0.40%. The FTSE 250 Index and the FTSE 350 Index has also risen. The FTSE 250 climbed 0.20%, while the FTSE 350 increased by 0.30%.
Top Gainers:
- Coca Cola HBC AG (LON:CCH): Increased 1.47% or 40.0 points to 2,770.0
- Intermediate Capital (LON:ICGIN): Rose 1.17% or 26.00 points to 2,242.00
- F&C Invest (LON:FCIT): Climbed 1.38% or 14.00 points to 1,026.00
Top Losers:
- Flutter (LON:FLTRF) Entertainment: Fell 1.39% or 205.0 points to 14,595.0
- Smurfit Kappa (LON:SKG): Dropped 1.16% or 42.0 points to 3,574.0
- EasyJet (LON:EZJ): Declined 0.67% or 3.10 points to 460.50
In Commodities Trading:
- Gold Futures for August delivery declined 4.10 points to 2,326.70 a troy ounce.
- Crude Oil for August delivery added 0.46 points to 81.29 a barrel.
- September Brent Oil Contract added 0.50% or 0.42 to 84.64 a barrel
Currency Markets:
- GBP/USD remained unchanged at 1.26, with the daily range between 1.2668-1.2694.
- EUR/GBP is stable at 0.84 with a daily range of 0.8434-0.8447.
- The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.23% at 105.497
Main Economic Events:
Today's main economic event in the United Kingdom is the CBI Distributive Trades Survey.
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