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(Reuters) - Banks and industrial stocks weighed on London s FTSE 100 on Friday, while airline stocks came under pressure as Britain tightened travel restrictions again.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index edged 0.1% lower, with HSBC, Prudential, Barclays and Lloyds banking group down between 0.7% and 1.2% after weaker than expected U.S. jobs data pushed bond yields lower.
Miners, including Anglo American, BHP Group and Rio Tinto offered the biggest support.
British airways owner IAG lost 0.9% after Britain removed Portugal from its quarantine-free travel list and added seven more countries to its red list.
Other airlines including Ryanair Holdings, Wizz Air and EasyJet fell between 1% and 2.6%.
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(Reporting by Shivani Kumaresan in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
TSX scales record high as energy, gold stocks gain
06/04/2021 | 10:03am EDT
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(Reuters) - Canada s main stock index hit a record high on Friday, driven by gains in energy and gold stocks as underlying commodity prices firmed, although the country lost more jobs than expected in May due to lockdowns. The energy sector climbed 1.1% as U.S. crude rose 1.2%, while Brent crude added 1.1%. [O/R] The materials sector, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, added 1.4% as gold futures rose 0.6% to $1,883.2 an ounce. [GOL/] At 09:37 a.m. ET (13:37 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange s S&P/TSX composite index was up 82.52 points, or 0.41%, at 20,023.91.