FTSE 100 stages tentative recovery; Johnson Matthey and Centrica weigh
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(Reuters) - London's blue-chip shares staged a tentative recovery on Friday from their worst session in six weeks a day earlier, led by gains in banks and miners, even as weak earnings dragged on utilities, SSE and Centrica, and Johnson Matthey.The FTSE 100 index was up 0.2 percent and the FTSE 250 roughly flat by 0935 GMT after suffering steep falls in the last session, when the Bank of England slashed its economic growth forecasts amid Brexit uncertainty.Investors also fretted about the..