AN agreement to boost the eurozone bailout fund lifted London's leading shares index and helped it finish the first quarter of 2012 with gains of 3.5%.
The 17 nations will increase the fund to €700 billion (£585.4bn), beyond its current ceiling of €500bn in a bid to stop the crisis escalating.
The FTSE-100 Index, which has suffered three days of declines, closed 26.4 points higher at 5768.5, as traders picked up banking and mining stocks which had been hit by the mid-week retreat.
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