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The FTSE 100 index closed up 14.27 points, 0.2%, at 8,801.29... The UK composite PMI also returned to growth with a reading of 50.3 points in May, up from 48.5 in April.
Rob Wood, at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the figures show UK growth has passed the worst as President Donald Trump walking back his more ruinous tariffs cuts the panic that took hold in April.
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