By Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Traders in London reached for the buy
button on Tuesday, sending the benchmark stock index higher for the
first time this week.
The FTSE 100 index added 0.1% to 6,273.03, partly recovering
from a 0.7% loss from Monday.
ARM Holdings PLC (ARMHY) posted the biggest gain in the index,
up 3.8%, after a well-received third-quarter earnings report.
GKN PLC added 2.8% after the engineering group reported a rise
in third-quarter pretax profit.
Oil firms were also on the rise, tracking a rise in oil prices.
Shares of BP PLC (BP) rose 0.6% and Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB)
picked up 1.2%.
On a more downbeat note, shares of Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
lost 1.9%, after the consumer-products company cautioned that
full-year sales would come in at the lower end of its previously
forecast range.
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