Hargreaves Lansdown has risen 5.8% to top the FTSE 100 leaderboard as the blue-chip index recovers from yesterday's decline.
Having dropped 1.6% yesterday, the FTSE 100 was up 0.8% at 6,294 by mid-afternoon, buoyed by better earnings data and broker upgrades. Hargreaves Lansdown topped the list of risers after analysts at Barclays raised their price target on the stock to 820p. Shares jumped 6.1% to 737p, a day ahead of the platform group's interim results. ARM Holdings also rose, up 4.7% to 933.5p as results cheered investors, with BP's earnings also prompting a 1.8% jump to 470p. BG Group, having initially dropped 1.7% after revealing it would miss some production targets, had more than reversed that d...
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