FTSE steadies as stronger miners offset weaker oils

By Atul Prakash LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top share index steadied on Wednesday, underperforming European peers, with a drop in energy stocks on the back of weaker oil prices offsetting a mining sector rally. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index was flat in percentage terms at 7,188.20 points by 1006 GMT, after closing marginally higher in the previous session. In contrast, the pan-European STOXX 600 index was trading 0.6 percent higher. Rio Tinto rose 1.8 percent after the world's No. ...