Updates from Royal Mail, Kingfisher and Wolseley

The FTSE 100 lost almost 37 points yesterday, pushed back to 6,520.3. Miners took the biggest swings south with Randgold Resources down 4.22% to 4627p and Fresnillo down 3.73% to 852p. British engineers Smiths Group was also hit heavily, tumbling 3.25% to 1280p as first-half profits were impacted by a rising pound. The biggest climber was BG Group, up 1.93%.

In the US, some tech stocks took a hammering with Facebook falling 5%; the Dow Jones fell 0.16% overall to 16,276.6. %VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%