FTSE 100

Shares in mining giant drop 11%

OCM goes overweight UK blue chips

Many companies at risk of dividend cuts

Several brokers down 10%

Some stocks set to benefit

The FTSE 100 index climbed sharply on Tuesday, boosted by defence stocks and a 9% rise in engineering firm Smiths Group.

The FTSE 100 opened down 0.5% this morning, in the first trading session since the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night.

Company forecasts £650m 'headwinds' in 2016

The growing influx of overseas investors into the London stockmarket is providing opportunities for UK multi-cap managers to find overlooked 'valuation anomalies' further down the market-cap spectrum.

With concerns surrounding global growth, Peter Hewitt, manager of the F&C Managed Portfolio Income trust, highlights the trusts set to benefit from the UK being the fastest-growing G7 economy.