British stocks up 0.04 pct Wednesday

LONDON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- British stocks rose on Wednesday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 Index up by 0.04 percent, or 2.20 points, to close at 6,131.46 points.

Next, a British multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer, soared 7.68 percent, the top gainer of the blue chips. Smurfit Kappa Group and Burberry Group increased by 4.75 percent and 3.69 percent, respectively.

Taylor Wimpey, a British house-building company, was the worst performer in the blue chips, with its shares losing 8.09 percent. Barclays, a British multinational investment bank and financial services company, dropped 6.11 percent. Rolls-Royce Holdings, a British-based engineering company,fell 3.62 percent.