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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ftse-steady-ahead-of-ecb-decision.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The FTSE 100 Index stood 39 points higher at 5681.4" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-ftse-steady-ahead-of-ecb-decision.jpg" alt="The FTSE 100 Index stood 39 points higher at 5681.4"/></a></p>
<p>The London market has remained steady with traders looking to the European Central Bank to soothe fears over the deepening debt crisis in the eurozone.</p>
<p>The FTSE 100 Index lifted 39 points to 5681.4 amid hopes that the ECB will step up its Government bond-buying programme at its latest rate-setting meeting.</p>
<p>Pressure has mounted since Ireland sought a financial bailout from the EU last month, fuelling fears that other nations &#8211; particularly Portugal and Spain &#8211; will follow in its footsteps.</p>
<p>Investors were cheered further by reports suggesting the US government was prepared to see more International Monetary Fund money used to help indebted eurozone countries.</p>
<p>The positive sentiment lifted banking stocks, with part-nationalised banks Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland up 1.1p at 65.1p and 0.6p at 40.4p respectively.</p>
<p>In corporate news, Thomson Holidays owner TUI Travel advanced more than 6% to the top of the risers board after its full-year results revealed an 11% increase in full-year operating profits. The travel firm made an underlying operating profit of £447 million in the year to September 30, up from £401 million the previous year. Shares were up 13.5p at 227.9p.</p>
<p>B&#038;Q owner Kingfisher saw shares lift 8.4p to 246.2p after it said growth in international sales had offset a decline in the UK.</p>
<p>Rolls-Royce recovered from losses earlier in the session, after Australian airline Qantas said it had launched preliminary legal action against the company, after the recent failure of its Trent-900 engine, which was powering a Qantas A380 superjumbo. The airline said it had filed a statement of claim in a federal court that will allow it to launch legal action against Rolls-Royce if required. Shares were up 1p at 619.5p.</p>
<p>Outside the top flight, JJB Sports plummeted 22% or 1.3p to 4.5p after it revealed it expected to breach certain financial covenants on a £25 million Bank of Scotland loan after a deterioration in trading.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, results from pub company Marston&#8217;s cheered investors after the Pitcher &#038; Piano firm reported a 4.6% rise in profits to £73.5 million as it reaped the benefit of its plan to focus on &#8220;food, families, females and forty/fifty-somethings&#8221;. Shares were up more than 5% or 5.9p at 106.5p.</p>
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