Miners help prop up commodity-heavy FTSE

By Atul Prakash LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top equity index steadied on Friday, outperforming the broader European stock market and propped up by commodities shares, which advanced as prices of major industrial metals and oil rose. The commodity-heavy FTSE 100 index was flat in percentage terms at 6,100.11 points by 0918 GMT, after gaining 0.7 percent in the previous session. Most British shares followed suit with the notable exception of the commodity sector.