India, May 21 -- U.K. stocks are marginally down on Wednesday amid concerns over an impasse in Russia-Ukraine peace talks, a lack of progress in trade negotiations, and data showing an acceleration in British consumer price inflation in the month of April.
Investors are also reacting to some corporate earnings announcements.
The benchmark FTSE 100 is down 6.75 points or 0.08% at 8,774.37 a few minutes before noon.
SSE plc shares are up nearly 1% after the company reported pretax profit of 1.85 billion pounds for the year ended 31 March 2025 compared to 2.50 billion pounds, prior year. Earnings per share was 108.1 pence compared to 156.5 pence.
Shares of drug firm AstraZeneca are up 0.85% after the company announced that it has successfu...