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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jeremy Cutler

Financials lift FTSE 100 as oil heads below 80 dollars

A small boat moves along the shoreline where an a cargo vessel, tugboat and industrial barge are all anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran (Amirhosein Khorgooi/AP) - (AP)

The FTSE 100 made strong progress on Tuesday as oil fell further amid growing confidence in the US-Iran peace process.

The FTSE 100 closed up 63.59 points, 0.6%, at 10,494.21.

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