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FTSE bolstered by Vodafone bid talk
04/02/2013| 07:49am US/EasternM&A expectations helped push the FTSE 100 back towards five-year highs by mid-session on Tuesday, with heavyweight Vodafone rumoured to be the subject of a multi-billion-pound breakup bid.


Vodafone rallied 4.2 percent after the Financial Times Alphaville blog cited "usually reliable people" as saying that Verizon Communications and AT&T had been working together on a breakup bid for the British group.

The bid would be pitched at about 260 pence a share, around a 40 percent premium to the current price for Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile operator.

Vodafone's weighting accounts for around 6 percent of the entire FTSE 100 and the company's shares added nearly 17 points alone to the index on Tuesday.

London's blue chips climbed 64.21 points, or 1.0 percent to 6,475.95 by 1137 GMT.

"I do not think there is an M&A premium in the market at the moment, but if companies were to come into the market and say 'we think companies are good value and we want to use our strong balance sheets to make acquisitions', then that could push the market even higher," said James Humphreys, senior investment manager at Duncan Lawrie Private Bank.

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