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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Jeremy Cutler

Oil price moves higher as insurers hold back FTSE

Visitors to Greenwich Park, London look out towards Canary Wharf (John Walton/PA) - (PA Archive)

The FTSE 100 closed lower on Tuesday with gains in oil stocks, amid ongoing uncertainty in the Middle East, offset by caution ahead of US inflation data and weak insurers.

The FTSE 100 index closed down 18.31 points, 0.2%, at 10,844.19.

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