FTSE 100 Marginally Higher In Lackluster Trade

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FTSE 100 Marginally Higher In Lackluster Trade

(RTTNews) - U.K. stocks were slightly higher on Tuesday, with banks and miners leading the surge.

The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 8 points, or 0.1 percent, at 7,682, rising for a seventh consecutive session.

Bio-pharmaceutical firm OKYO Pharma plunged 14.5 percent as it announced plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange next month.

Renewi jumped 1.2 percent. The waste-to-product business expects its fiscal year-end profit to be slightly ahead of market expectations.

Wood products manufacturer Accsys Technologies rallied 1.8 percent after appointing a new CEO.

Banks such as Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered were seeing modest gains.

NatWest Group edged up slightly, a day after the U.K. government extended a deadline for reducing its stake in the bank by two years.

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