Thursday, April 19, 2007

U.K. Shares Slide, Paced by BP, Shell; Anglo American Leads Miners Lower

(Bloomberg) -- U.K. stocks declined, paced by BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Anglo American Plc led shares of mining companies lower.

The benchmark FTSE 100 Index slipped 45.5, or 0.7 percent, to 6403.90 at 8:10 a.m. The FTSE All-Share Index lost 0.7 percent to 3329.42. Ireland's ISEQ Index dropped 0.5 percent to 9588.14.


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