10 March 2021 | 11:58am
StockMarketWire.com - Weakness in the mining sector amid slumping iron ore prices saw the FTSE 100 underperform other European markets on Wednesday. By midday the index was down 0.3% to 6,710.18.
BHP fell 3.3% to £21.28 and Rio Tinto fell 3% to £56.45.
In corporate news, insurance group Legal & General shed 0.4% to 280.9p, having reported a 15% fall in annual profit driven by pandemic-related claims.
Legal & General held its dividend steady at 17.57p per share.
Food delivery service Just Eat Takeway gained 4.1% to £71.22 as it posted a deeper annual loss of €147 million after a rise in revenue was offset by higher spending.
On a positive note, Just Eat forecast a further acceleration in order growth in 2021 amid high demand for deliveries during the pandemic.
ukraine at the time. the european union and the international fund and others. the reason this prosecutor was widely seen as unwilling to prosecute any kind of elite corruption. he was accused by someone being corrupt hils. in this case involving a natural gas company in ukraine for which biden sat on the board. he was accused in that case of failing to investigate properly. so you can make an argument that vice president biden intervening to get that guy fired actually made it more likely that the company would be investigated. rather than less likely as critics are alleging. ever since house intelligence chairman schiff paraphrased and added analysis to the call transcript. with the acting dpli. he s become the president s target on twitter. saying schiff illegally made up a fake and terrible statement pretended it to be mine as the most important part of the call
veterans day, of all people, this president who holds hils up as this great champion of our armed forces. i think you see it in what you alluded to earlier with the tweets that don t really jive with reality, brian. you have the president talking about the not just what we saw in florida in the recount and there being instances of infected ballots that he never offered any proof for, but he also has gone on and on about the commander in charge of the bin laden raid. also, not appearing to understand that it s not the armed forces that was responsibilitiesible for finding bin laden. it was responsible for taking him out. not for finding him. that s the intelligence apparatus s responsibility. in addition to insulting this known military hero and making something up about him that he is a hillary clinton supporter in the president s words, that you have the commander in chief