Friday, June 15, 2007

FTSE 100 Stocks Rise, Paced by Sainsbury; Morrison, Tesco Shares Advance

(Bloomberg) -- U.K. stocks rose for the third
day. J Sainsbury Plc led shares of retail companies higher
after a Qatar-backed fund increased its stake in the
supermarket chain.

The benchmark FTSE 100 Index added 27, or 0.4 percent,
to 6676.9 in London at 8:59 a.m. The FTSE All-Share Index
gained 0.4 percent to 3451.10. Ireland's ISEQ Index rose
0.8 percent to 9583.61.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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