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Article: Energy shares drag down London stock market
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 20, 2008
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Energy shares drag down London stock market
LONDON, March 20 (Xinhua) -- London stock market opened lower on
Thursday as a rush of profit-taking in commodities from oil to
copper sparked a sell-off in London-listed miners.
The benchmark FTSE 100 fell 42.3 points, 0.8 percent, at 5,503.3.
Vedanta Resources led the fallers, down more than 7 percent,
while ...