
Weakness on Wall Street and nervousness ahead of some key US data resulted in a negative start for UK stocks on Friday, though gains from oil major BP limited the decline. BP was on the rise early on after being handed a smaller-than-expected civil penalty over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.
Increasing demand for price-comparison services resulted in a decent fourth-quarter performance from website group Moneysupermarket.com, though growth did tail off towards the end of the year. Group revenues were 4% higher year-on-year at £58.9m in the last three months of 2014, compared with 12% gr