India, April 28 -- The U.K. market is marginally up at noon on Monday with investors making some selective purchases ahead of a slew of corporate earnings announcements and some crucial economic data this week.
Optimism about U.S. and China striking a trade deal sometime soon is also contributing to the positive mood in the market.
AstraZeneca, HSBC Holdings, BP and Associated British Foods are scheduled to announce their earnings on Tuesday.
GSK, Barclays, Haleon, Lloyds Banking, Endeavour Mining, Whitbread, Shell, Natwest and Standard Chartered are among the several other companies slated to report their earnings this week.
The benchmark FTSE 100, which advanced to 8,453.80 earlier, was up 13.02 points or 0.15% at 8,428.27 at noon.
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