FTSE 100 lower as weak dollar hits exporters but Reckitt shines after results
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(Reuters) - Britain's blue-chip index inched lower and off its four-month high, as a weaker dollar weighed on exporter stocks while consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser jumped after forecast-beating sales growth. The FTSE 100 index and the midcap bourse were 0.2 percent lower by 0834 GMT. The dollar weakened as investors took to risky assets on optimism surrounding the Sino-U.S. trade situation, with anotherround of talks set for this week. But that dragged down the multinational stocks such..