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Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Wednesday

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The FTSE 100 ended slightly up yesterday and will open again on Wednesday marginally higher, but uncertainty continues to concern investors. Domestically, economic growth is still proving elusive with the public sector now being blamed for underperformance, while jobs data this week showed slightly slowing wage growth and a fall in jobs vacancies.