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Blue chips in London nudged higher on Thursday despite sluggish economic growth in August and a 10% drop for Premier Inn owner Whitbread.
The FTSE 100 index closed up 11.34 points, 0.1%, at 9,436.09. The FTSE 250 ended 29.60 points lower, 0.1%, at 21,991.36 while the AIM All-Share was up 2.47 points, 0.3%, to 789.89.
The UK economy achieved only minor growth in August, numbers from the Office for National Statistics showed, while the reading for July was downwardly revised.
Monthly growth of 0.1% for August was reported but July’s reading was nudged down to a 0.1% decline. The ONS had initially reported that gross domestic product was flat in July.
The ONS said manufacturing production advanced 0.4% month-on-month in August,
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