FTSE 100 stages tentative recovery; SSE and Johnson Matthey weigh
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(Reuters) - London's blue-chip shares staged a tentative recovery on Friday from their worst day 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 0.3 percent and the FTSE 250 was down 0.1 percent by 0855 GMT after suffering steep falls in the last session when Bank of England slashed economic growth forecasts amid Brexit uncertainties.Investors also fretted about the..