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FTSE 100 closes flat on Greek debt crisis

Xinhua, June 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

FTSE 100 Index, British benchmark stock market gauge, Friday edged up slightly by 0.04 percent, or 2.57 points, to 6710.45, as Greece's deadlock on debt negotiation continued to haunt the market.

On the same day, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that British public fiscal deficit in May was 10.1 billion pounds (or 15.9 billion U.S. dollars), 2.2 billion pounds lower than that of May 2014.

TUI AG's share price increased by 2.94 percent, topping the gainers of the blue chips.

Shares of ARM Holdings, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, London Stock Exchange Group and St James's Place advanced by 2.76 percent, 2.74 percent, 2.30 percent and 2.18 percent respectively.

Fresnillo led the top losers of the blue chips with a share price drop of 1.99 percent, followed by Glencore (1.74 percent), Royal Mail (1.28 percent), Randgold Resources (1.06 percent) and Diageo (1.00 percent).

Trading volume in FTSE 100 companies was around 50 percent larger than the 30-day average. Endit