London- London shares ended more Thursday, with the mining sector, supported by the flotation of Swiss Glencore goods giant.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.55% of close at 5,955.99 points.
Glencore, trader of more products in the world by revenue, said Thursday that he had raised $ 6.1 billion to ￡ (10 billion dollars) through a set of the initial public offer at 530 pence per share.
At this price, the group is estimated at $ 36.6 billion to ￡ a € ($59.2 billion) and the list marks the largest IPO so far this year.
Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has been most widely traded day stock, seeing the 121 million million shares changing hands, followed by Vodafone, which saw 93.3 million units to switch owners.
Investec was the better performer of blue chip, 5.43% - or 25.1 pencent rising - finally at 487, followed by the ITV British media company, which added 4.03% - or 2, 7 pence - finally to 69.7.
Brokers broker Icap was worst performer day, slip 3.11% - or 15.2 pence - to put an end to the 473.7, followed by engineering and it company Invensys, hangar 3.10% - or 9.6 pence - to terminate the 306.4.
On the foreign exchange market, a book was worth 1,618 dollars to TSB 1707, slightly from 1.616 at the same time, Wednesday, while it rose to EUR 1.135, of 1.133 during the same period.
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