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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jeremy Cutler

Soft US inflation helps FTSE shake off oil surge

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

The FTSE 100 shrugged off a weak start to close higher on Tuesday as soft US inflation figures helped offset jitters caused by soaring oil prices.

The FTSE 100 closed up 31.10 points, 0.3%, at 10,529.39.

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