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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/heineken-cheer-helps-lift-ftse.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The FTSE 100 Index rose 33.1 points to 6070.5 in early trading" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-heineken-cheer-helps-lift-ftse.jpg" alt="The FTSE 100 Index rose 33.1 points to 6070.5 in early trading"/></a></p>
<p>Beer giant Heineken refreshed European markets after it delivered better-than-expected results amid &#8220;challenging but improving&#8221; economic conditions.</p>
<p>The confidence boost from Heineken, which followed a decent session for Asian markets, helped the FTSE 100 Index climb 33.1 points to 6070.5, a rise of 0.5%.</p>
<p>The risers board in London featured a number of property stocks after HSBC and Goldman Sachs upgraded a number of stocks in the sector, including Land Securities and British Land, up 15.5p to 717.5p and 10p to 553p respectively.</p>
<p>Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton provided the other major focus after its 71% jump in half-year profits to 10.5 billion US dollars (£6.5 billion) and pledge to return 10 billion US dollars (£6.2 billion) to shareholders this year.</p>
<p>The company was also &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221; about the short-term outlook for the global economy but shares still edged 18.75p lower to 2481.75p.</p>
<p>In the UK retail sector, Thorntons shares fell 9.75p to 89.25p after it revealed a drop in half-year profits and said trading so far in 2011 has been weak.</p>
<p>And Game Group shares were 1p lower at 71p as it outlined plans to increase sales over the internet as part of a turnaround strategy.</p>
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