London close: Bounce in stocks fizzles out amid latest trade headlines

London stocks finished higher on Wednesday, but well off their best levels of the day, as investors put their concerns about the US-China trade spat to one side, at least for now. The FTSE 100 was up by 0.31% or 23.55 points to 7,627.40, while the pound was 0.22% higher against the euro at 1.1392 and by another 0.19% to 1.3199 versus the dollar. Nevertheless, the buying was punctuated by pullbacks as first Brussels and then China announced retaliatory trade tariffs on US goods. Shortly before ...

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