JABAR EKSPRES – British stocks ended higher on Thursday (6/15), extending gains for a fourth straight day, with the benchmark FTSE 100 index on the London Stock Exchange adding 0.34 percent or 25.52 points to settle at 7,628.26 points.
The FTSE 100 index lifted 0.10 or 7.96 points to 7,602.74 points on Wednesday (6/14), after gaining 0.32 or 24.09 points to 7,594.78 points on Tuesday (6/13), and increasing 0.11 percent or 8.33 points to 7,570.69 points on Monday (6/12).
Ocado Group PLC, a software company that offers a robotics platform that provides end-to-end solutions for online grocery trading, soared 5.11 percent, becoming the top gainer of the blue chips.
This was followed by shares of British-Russian precious metals mining company Polymetal International PLC, which jumped 4.11 percent; and London-based British publishing, business intelligence and exhibition group Informa PLC, which gained 3.41 percent.
Meanwhile, Evraz PLC, a British multinational steel manufacturing and mining company partly owned by Russian oligarchs posted the biggest loss (top loser) among the leading stocks, with its share price tumbling 12.59 percent.
This was followed by shares of Edinburgh, Scotland-based British banking and insurance holding company NatWest Group PLC which fell 3.47 percent; and British global safety equipment group that makes products for hazard detection and life protection Halma PLC fell 3.42 percent.
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