FTSE rebounds as earnings in focus, GKN tumbles
The UK's top share index shrugged off weakness from oil stocks on Thursday as a handful of earnings updates were in focus, though GKNplunged on uncertainty following the ditching of its CEO designate.The FTSE was up 0.2 percent at 7,386.94 points at its close, with gains in the healthcare and consumer sectors offsetting weaker commodity stocks.Oil stocks were among the top fallers on the FTSE, hit after Reuters reported that Norway's trillion-dollar wealth fund proposed to drop oil and gas compa
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