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London close: UK stocks, sterling extend gains
In the background meanwhile, investors turned their attention to bank earnings and the start of the second quarter corporate earnings reporting season across the pond. The FTSE 100 was up 0.36% at 8,252.91 and the second-tier index by 0.01% at 21,202.89. …