Mining stocks, weakened in response to lower commodity prices. Top of the earnings pile on Monday was Alstom, the French engineering group. It reported a 27% rise in first-half operating profit. Miners were the biggest weight to the downside on worries that a slowdown in the global economy would hurt demand for metals. In early trade, the FTSE 100 in London climbed 0.2%, Frankfurt Xetra Dax gained 0.1%, and the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.3%. |
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