India, Feb. 5 -- UK stocks are moving in a tight band Wednesday morning with investors largely focusing on earnings updates, and digesting the data on the nation's manufacturing and services sector activity for the month of January.
With U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats against several major trading partners raising fears of a prolonged trade war, the outlook for global economic growth remains somewhat uncertain.
The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 3.30 points or 0.05% at 9,574.07 a little while ago.
DCC, Croda International, Spirax Group, Diageo, Convatec Group, Whitbread, Halma, EasyJet, Coca-Cola HBC, Diploma, Scottish Mortgage, Prudential, Kingfisher and Airtel Africa are down 1 to 3.2%.
GSK is climbing nearly 5.5%. The pharma...