India, Feb. 25 -- U.K. stocks are modestly higher Tuesday morning with investors digesting some earnings updates and other corporate news while continuing to follow the developments in Germany where a new government is set to take charge soon. Worries about fresh U.S. tariffs and uncertainty about the Trump administration's economic policies limit market's upside.
The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 34.52 points or 0.4% at 8,693.50 a little while ago.
Smith & Nephew is rising nearly 7% on strong results. The medical equipment manufacturing company reported attributable profit for the year of $412 million, higher than last year's $263 million. Earnings per share rose to 47.0 cents from 30.1 cents a year ago.
Looking ahead, for fiscal 2025, the ...