FTSE consolidates gains as Wall Street opens higher
An easing of energy crisis fears and a positive start to trading on Wall Street helped the FTSE 100 to a solid finish on Thursday. By the close, the blue chip benchmark was up 1.2% at 7,078.04 points, while the FTSE 250 finished 0.77% higher at 22,559.22.
In the US the S&P 500 was up 1.35% to 4,422.55 by 4.30pm UK time.
Wall Street’s indices pushed higher after a temporary agreement ...