Market overview: FTSE 100 up 24
Inside: Loans UK
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Market overview: FTSE 100 up 24
ShareCast – 0845: Miners and oil companies are leading Footsie higher. Tullow, Ferrexpo and Xstrata are the best performers and are outweighing some big names going ex-dividend. BT and Scottish and Southern are both trading without the last payment today. FTSE 100 up 24 at 5,345.
Virgin in talks to sell out of Nigeria
Virgin Atlantic is in talks to sell its 49 per cent stake in Virgin Nigeria following an increasingly acrimonious dispute with the Nigerian government over the location of the lossmaking west African carrier’s domestic operations