FTSE hits four-month high as miners rally

By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's benchmark stock market index rose to its highest level in four months on Tuesday, lifted by stronger mining and banking stocks. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index rose 0.8 percent to 6,402.58 points - a new peak for 2016 and its highest level since early December 2015. Mining stocks such as Anglo American and BHP Billiton advanced on the back of supportive economic signals coming out of China, the world's second-biggest economy and the leading global con