Hints and tips:
...Corporate earnings for Wednesday include Balfour Beatty, Admiral Group and Lookers....
...Both companies are currently weighing up where to build their first reactors in the UK, with EDF focusing on Hinkley Point in Somerset and Sizewell in Suffolk and Eon looking at Oldbury in Gloucestershire...
...The FTSE 100 gained 42 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 5,528.1, while the mid-cap FTSE 250 rose 97.4 points, or 1.1 per cent, to 8,498.0, a fresh all-time high....
...Fellow contractor Balfour Beatty is rumoured to be doing due-diligence....
...In the wider market, leading shares slipped back as oil stocks gave up a bit of ground The FTSE 100 lost 21.1 points or 0.4 per cent to 5439.8 while the mid-cap FTSE 250 fell 19.5 points or 0.2 per cent...
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