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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Jeremy Cutler

FTSE 100 reaches new high as gold and oil surge

The surging price of gold helped the stock exchange to a record day (Alamy/PA) -

Blue chips in London closed up sharply on Thursday, after hitting a new record peak on commodity price strength and well received trading updates.

The FTSE 100 index closed up 63.57 points, 0.7%, at 9,578.57. It had earlier established a new best level of 9,594.82.

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