Global economy worries weighed on heavily-weighted miners, with Kazakhmys down 30.5p to 715.5p and Evraz off 13.3p to 234.3p.
Global economy worries weighed on heavily-weighted miners, with Kazakhmys down 30.5p to 715.5p and Evraz off 13.3p to 234.3p.
A buoyant session for blue chip financial stocks failed to boost the London market today amid renewed fears over the global economy and subdued trading on Wall Street.
The FTSE 100 Index gave back most of yesterday's gains, down 36.4 points at 5793.3, despite a sector-wide broker upgrade for UK bank stocks and better-than-expected third quarter results from JP Morgan Chase.
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