FTSE edges higher with commodity picture mixed

By Kit Rees and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - British equities edged higher on Monday but underperformed euro zone shares as a fall in the price of oil weighed on energy firms and counteracted a fading boost to UK-listed miners from well-received Chinese data. FTSE 100 index rose 40.00 points 0.7 percent to 6,179.79 points by 1510 GMT. Assurance from a top securities regulator that China will not reintroduce a circuit breaker mechanism to stop volatility on its stock market in the next few y