FTSE 100 ends first day of June higher.

The FTSE 100 finished the first trading day of June on a positive note, closing 0.6 percent up at 7,490 as a rebound in copper prices helped to support the miners.

"European markets have undergone a slow start to the month after yesterday's sell-off, as attention switches away from the US debt ceiling, and towards the broader economic outlook, and increasing evidence that inflation is slowing sharply," commented CMC...