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British FTSE 100 slightly changed on Thursday

Xinhua, February 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

FTSE 100 Index, the British benchmark stock market gauge, Thursday increased by 0.09 percent, or 5.91 points, to 6,865.93 points.

Britain's monthly house prices increased by 2 percent in January, higher than the 1.1 percent recorded in December 2014, said Halifax, the country's largest mortgage lender, on Thursday.

Bank of England, the central bank of Britain, Thursday voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5 percent.

The bank also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets, or quantitative easing policy scheme, at 375 billion pounds (or 570 billion U.S. dollars).

Tullow Oil's share price increased by 5.61 percent, topped the gainers of the blue chips. BT Group, Hargreaves Lansdown, Aggreko and Smith & Nephew increased by 4.49 percent, 3.52 percent, 2.63 percent and 2.57 percent, respectively.

AstraZeneca led the top losers of the blue chips with a share price drop of 3.39 percent, followed by easyJet (2.92 percent), Vodafone Group (2.37 percent), BAE Systems (2.09 percent) and ITV (1.99 percent).

The index has gained 4.69 percent so far this year when measured in U.S. dollar. Endit