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Three out of nine industries shrank with Consumer goods declining the most by 0.38% and Industrials contracting 0.10%. Alongside to that, Consumer services jumped 0.70% and Utilities 0.62%. Among the top performing companies were Evraz Plc soaring 3.92% and Whitebread Plc takig the second leader position by increasing 3.29%. The latter advanced to 2,505 pence, showing the biggest gain since January 1992 as the company announced same-store sales rose 7.1% in 13 weeks at its Costa Coffee Outlets. For comparison, the company gained 3.8% the last year. Meanwhile, Tullow Oil Plc dropped the most by losing 5.73% to 1,177 pence touching the lowest price level since Sept. 8, 2011 on the company's announcement it would sell its owned North Holdings and buy Spring Energy for $372 million. Eurasian Natural Resources slid 3% after Citigroup announced in a note it forecasts the company's net debt to b at $5.5billion in the first two quarters of 2013.
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