22 February 2021 | 16:38pm
StockMarketWire.com - Details of the UK s reopening plan helped give the FTSE 100 a lift on Monday afternoon with the index recovering earlier heavier losses to trade down just 0.18% at 6,612.24.
Hospitality, retail and travel stocks all rallied with pubs group JD Wetherspoon up 8.7% to £13.43, budget airline Jet2 rising 7.2% to £13.14 and WH Smith gaining 6% to £17.85.
By 4.30pm UK time the S&P 500 was down 0.6% to 3,884.42.
Security group G4S slumped 9.8% to 242.6p after private equity firm GardaWorld said it wouldn t raise its 235p offer for the company, cooling hopes of a bidding war.
G4S had rejected GardaWorld s offer in favour of 245p bid from Allied Universal.
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