date:Apr 15, 2014
A rise in food and retail stocks, seen as defensive plays with investors worried by tensions in Ukraine, enabled Britain's top equity index to inch higher on Monday.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed up by 0.3 percent, or 22.06 points, at 6,583.76 points. Trading volumes came in at around 1.1 times above the index's 3-month daily average.
The FTSE erased its earlier losses after the U.S. stock market rose following better-than-expected quarterly net profits at Wall Street bank Citigroup.
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