Whitbread is promoted to FTSE 100
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Whitbread, the leisure firm that owns Costa Coffee and David Lloyd, will rejoin the FTSE 100 stock index.
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The FTSE 100 has recorded its highest close in four months, extending a recent winning streak to 11 gains out of the last 12 sessions, with fund managers and other financial shares setting the pace.
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The FTSE 100 has climbed as a surge by US shares gives a boost to European markets. Shire Pharmaceuticals SHP.L jumped after winning approval for a key drug and consumer goods giant Unilever ULVR.
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Europe's main stock markets have risen in initial trading, with London's FTSE 100 climbing to the highest level since late 2000 on takeover speculation in the mining sector.
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Business & money: Shares jump more than 12% after embattled bank reveals takeover offers.
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Takeover stories started to re-emerge as the FTSE 100 posted its first meaningful rise since the turmoil in global markets started last week.
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Collins Stewart Tullett Plc&#39;s shares posted their biggest gain since the stock began trading in 2000 after the London-based brokerage agreed to buy Prebon Group Ltd.
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Britain's FTSE 100  index of leading shares reversed early gains on Thursday as commodity stocks weighed, but Cairn Energy  topped the leaderboard after a successful share placement.
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London equities opened in positive territory on Thursday as a raft of bid news helped lift sentiment on the market. The FTSE 100 started trade up 0.3 per cent at 4,740.1 and the mid-cap FTSE 250 stayed flat at 6,755.7.
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Britain's FTSE 100 index (.FTSE) rose  0.3 percent in early trading on Wednesday as European and Asian  bourses swept to multi-year highs and as ICI  leapt more  than 9 percent on a sale of one of its units.
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A strong performance from the heavyweight banking sector helped the FTSE 100 rise 150 points.
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Leisure firm Whitbread has reported a slight slowdown in underlying sales growth after a strong performance at its budget hotels was held back by the impact of poor weather on its pub restaurants.
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London equities made strong gains on Wednesday, with every FTSE 100 stock higher after strong overnight gains on Wall Street following the Federal Reserve&#39;s 50 basis point cut in US interest rates.
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Wilson Bowden shares surge to a record high after the UK builder says that a number of companies are interested in buying it.
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The FTSE 100 gains 7.5% in value over 2004 in a year tainted by high oil prices and rising interest rates.
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London equities were higher in afternoon trade on Thursday, with momentum coming from the the heavily-weighted oil sector as the prospect of $100 crude prices moved closer.
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Online poker firm PartyGaming is tipped to float on the London Stock Exchange, a move that could put it into the FTSE 100 index.