Market displays little movement

THE Irish market had a modest gain of 52.75 yesterday to close at 6,530.67 as the banking sector lead the ISEQ higher.

AIB which reports results on tomorrow finished the day up 29.7c at €13.39. Bank of Ireland increased 19.3c to €9.50, Irish Life & Permanent jumped 30.3c to €10.55. Anglo fell 1.5c to close at €9.07 with over 2.6 million shares traded in the stock.

Construction giant CRH added to last week’s gains by moving to €25.85, a gain of 9.6c. Kingspan powered ahead 24c to €9.08 while Grafton had a quiet day ending at €5.62.