British stocks up 0.34 pct Tuesday
LONDON, March 19 (Xinhua) -- British stocks rose on Tuesday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 Index up by 0.34 percent, or 24.81 points, to close at 7,324.00 points.
Ocado Group, an online grocer, soared 5.36 percent, the top gainer of the blue chips. Informa and Smurfit Kappa Group increased by 3.69 percent and 3.25 percent, respectively.
Evraz, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, was the worst performer in the blue chips, with its shares losing 3.81 percent.
RELX, a British multinational information and analytics company, dropped 1.56 percent. Standard Chartered, a British multinational banking and financial services company, fell 1.15 percent. Enditem