(Reuters) - Britain's top share index slipped for a fifth day in a row on Friday, as European equities joined a global stock market sell-off triggered by a surge in U.S. Treasury bond yields, and as precious metals knocked miners.
Miners bore the brunt of the sell-off, hit by lower gold and copper prices. Anglo American dropped 1.2 percent, Xstrata lost 0.8 percent and Kazakhmys went down 0.9 percent.
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Miners bore the brunt of the sell-off, hit by lower gold and copper prices. Anglo American dropped 1.2 percent, Xstrata lost 0.8 percent and Kazakhmys went down 0.9 percent.
Read more at Reuters Africa
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