Firm FTSE 100 start for busy week of economic data
A busy week for economic data gets off to a positive start in the UK with markets on the front foot as investors embraced the government's first moves to ease pandemic lockdown measures.Both the benchmark FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 mid cap indexes made early gains on Monday despite the absence of major corporate news, rising around 1% apiece to 5,994.32 and 16,414.81, outstripping gains on major...