The FTSE 100 climbed as the markets reopened following the long weekend.
Fuelling gains was news UK shop price inflation hit a more than three-year low of 1.3% in March, against 2.5% in February, as per figures from the British Retail Consortium.
Data from Nationwide showed house prices had continued to fall in some areas of England over the first quarter meanwhile, but were up 0.4% across the board.
Among companies, Revolution Bars’ woes continued as the chain said shares would be suspended from London’s junior market after it failed to publish an interim report on time.
And finally, Google announced hundreds of billions of records would be destroyed in a bid to settle claims it collected user data, despite assuring it wouldn’t, while they browsed on Chrome’s private mode.