A recent rally on London's leading shares index all but ground to a halt yesterday despite a fightback for shares in under-pressure bank Standard Chartered.
The impact of better-than-expected jobs figures in the US and hopes of central bank intervention on the eurozone debt crisis has helped the top flight index climb to a four-month high at around 5840.
However with sentiment starting to fade, the FTSE 100 Index closed less than five points higher at 5845.9, with German and French markets closing in the red.
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