date:Jan 10, 2014
Marks Spencer helped Britain's FTSE 100 trade with small gains on Thursday as a positive performance at its foods business lifted the stock, bucking a string of gloomy Christmas updates in the retail sector.
Shares in MS rose 2.5 percent after the upmarket retailer reported organic growth in food sales in the Christmas quarter, offsetting a weak show for its clothes business, which reported a 10th consecutive quarter of falling sales.
The stock, which is still down 12 percent from a five-year