India, Aug. 14 -- After posting gains in the previous three sessions, the U.K. market is exhibiting some weakness on Thursday, weighed down by losses in select mining, financials and energy stocks. Investors digesting the latest batch of earnings news and economic data.
The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 9.33 points or 0.1% at 9,155.90 a few minutes before noon.
Rio Tinto is declining by more than 4%. Diploma is down 3.5%, while Beazley and GSK are down 2.4% and 2.3%, respectively.
BP, Shell, Unilever, Halma, Fresnillo, IMI, Anglo American Plc, Hikma Pharmaceuticals and Convatec Group are also down in negative territory with notable losses.
Admiral Group is rising nearly 5%, lifted by a whopping 67% surge in half-year pretax profit.
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