Friday, September 03, 2010
A better than forecast US jobs report and increasing talks around bids for software company Autonomy and power company Aggreko served to boost the FTSE 100 index by 1.06 per cent or 57.11 points through Friday's trading session. The majority of stocks moved up through the day prompting the FTSE 100 index to close at 5,428.15.
Fears about the global economic recovery has been central to investors' minds recently and the surprisingly positive US non-farm payrolls data have UK stocks a solid push in early afternoon trading. Top performers include Cable & Wireless Worldwide, up 4.51 per cent, Barclays up 4.21 per cent and Kazakhmys up 3.05 per cent.
However at the top of the list today is Aggreko. Shares in Aggreko gained 5.5 per cent in...
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Share Prices
Top Five Risers (FTSE 350)
Top Five Fallers (FTSE 350)
Most Popular Shares in the FTSE (by volume)
| Most Popular Shares |
| TIDM | Company | Price | Change | Change % | Day's Volume |
| LLOY | Lloyds Banking Group | 72.72p | 0.60  | 0.83 % | 115,304,285 |
| VOD | Vodafone Group | 159.00p | 1.70  | 1.08 % | 74,525,893 |
| RBS | Royal Bank of Scotland Group | 46.62p | 0.47  | 1.02 % | 63,488,208 |
| BARC | Barclays | 325.15p | 13.15  | 4.21 % | 43,243,741 |
| VOG | Victoria Oil & Gas | 2.95p | 0.39  | 15.23 % | 41,215,215 |
| BMR | Berkeley Mineral Resources | 2.28p | 0.15  | 7.06 % | 35,068,744 |
| BP | BP | 401.70p | 9.10  | 2.32 % | 30,554,145 |
| MTA | Matra Petroleum | 1.85p | 0.08  | 4.23 % | 28,979,693 |
| BPC | BPC Limited (DI) | 3.00p | 0.30  | 11.11 % | 27,499,783 |
| SXX | Sirius Exploration | 7.62p | 1.25  | 19.61 % | 25,085,061 |
| CNA | Centrica | 328.30p | 2.50  | 0.77 % | 18,276,270 |
| HSBA | HSBC Holdings | 653.80p | 1.80  | 0.28 % | 17,890,081 |
| DSGI | DSG International | 26.43p | 1.24  | 4.92 % | 17,829,290 |
| ITV | ITV | 59.15p | 0.05  | 0.08 % | 17,368,379 |
| BA | BAE Systems | 321.50p | 8.20  | 2.62 % | 16,214,234 |
| PFD | Premier Foods | 20.94p | 3.62  | 20.90 % | 15,203,101 |
| OML | Old Mutual | 137.20p | 3.10  | 2.31 % | 14,865,418 |
| TSTR | Tri-Star Resources | 0.36p | 0.04  | 10.77 % | 14,767,663 |
| POL | Polo Resources | 3.43p | 0.07  | 2.08 % | 14,430,984 |
| XTA | Xstrata | 1,103.50p | 15.50  | 1.42 % | 13,012,248 |