Buoyant FTSE 100 at five-month high | Business

London’s leading shares rose for the eighth session in a row yesterday as a wave of vaccine optimism continued to wash over the Square Mile. Energy was the top-performing sector as oil prices rose again after producers backed Opec’s curb on output The FTSE 100 rose 85.25 points, or 1.35 …

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Royal Navy warship monitors Russian ships in UK waters

A Royal Navy warship has been monitoring two Russian ships in UK waters off Scotland. Patrol ship HMS Tyne has kept close watch on Viktor Leonov, an intelligence-gathering ship, and her supporting tanker Sergey Osipov. They have been sailing around the Moray Firth, where they sheltered from Storm Aiden when …

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UK shares to buy and sell during this Covid vaccine relief rally

The vaccine trades driving Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY) and BP (LSE:BP.) higher at the expense of Novacyt (LSE:NCYT) and Ocado (LSE:OCDO)continued today as investors scrambled to position themselves for a post-Covid world. The bombed-out shares of Rolls-Royce (LSE:RR.), BA owner International Consolidated Airlines Group (LSE:IAG) or catering giant Compass (LSE:CPG) …

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