FTSE 100 Live: Stocks to inch up ahead of Starmer’s Strait of Hormuz summit

City AM — Apr 17, 05:30 AM

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The UK and France are set to co-chair a meeting with allies later today in a bid to strum up ways to re-open the Strait of Hormuz.

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