Infrastructure software developer Autonomy Corporation (LON:AU) led the blue chips with a 2.2% advance.
Essar Energy (LON:ESSR), software company Sage Group (LON:SGE) and medical devices company Smith & Nephew (LON:SN) added nearly 2%.
International Consolidated Airlines Group (LON:IAG) was at the bottom of the pile with a 5.2% loss.
Beverage group Diageo (LON:DGE) was down 4.3%.
Oil & gas
Supermajors BP (LON:BP) and Shell (LON:RDSB) declined marginally, while BG Group (LON:BG) and Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) lost about 1% and Cairn Energy (LON:CNE) dropped 2.2%.
Engineering firms Amec (LON:AMEC) and Petrofac (LON:PFC) retreated 2.1% and 1% respectively.
Heritage Oil (LON:HOIL) and Melrose Resources (LON:MRS) followed, dropping 2.2%.
Salamander Energy (LON:SMDR) and Soco International (LON:SIA) shed 1.3%.
JKX Oil & Gas (LON:JKX) and Premier Oil (LON:PMO) declined 1%.
Service company Wood Group (LON:WG) slipped 3.6%.
Mining
Precious metals
Randgold Resources (LON:RRS) declined 2.3%, while fellow gold producer African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) posted a small loss.
Platinum miner Lonmin (LON:LMI) was down 1.2%.
Silver miner Fresnillo (LON:FRES) did better, rising 1%.
In the FTSE 250, Petropavlovsk (LON:POG) lost 3.5%, Hochschild Mining (LON:HOC) declined 2% and Aquarius Platinum (LON:AQP) eased 1%.
Solomon Islands and Australia operating copper and gold explorer Solomon Gold (LON:SOLG) and gold exploration and development Ariana Resources (LON:AAU) were among the top risers in the sector with gains of 7% and 5.5% respectively.
Base metals
Mining majors were in decline today.
Rio Tinto (LON:RIO), Antofagasta (LON:ANTO) and Xstrata (LON:XTA) dropped 2.2%, while Kazakhmys (LON:KAZ) lost 1.7% and Eurasian Natural Resources (LON:ENRC) and Vedanta Resources (LON:VED) were down 1.5%.
Anglo American (LON:AAL) and BHP Billiton (LON:BLT) posted small losses.
London’s only listed pure iron ore producer Ferrexpo (LON:FXPO) moved with the sector, shedding 3.8%.
Banks, insurance, private equity
Most financial stocks were in the red.
Barclays (LON:BARC) dropped 2%, HSBC (LON:HSBA) shed 1% and Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) declined marginally, as did partly nationalised banks Lloyds (LON:LLOY) and Royal Bank of Scotland (LON:RBS).
Legal & General (LON:LGEN) was at the bottom of the insurance sector with a 2.4% decline.
Aviva (LON:AV), Prudential (LON:PRU) and Standard Life (LON:SL) lost nearly 2%.
Admiral Group (LON:ADM), Old Mutual (LON:OML) and RSA Insurance Group (LON:RSA) posted small losses.
Small cap movers
Other notable risers among the small caps included developer of proprietary delivery systems for medicines Oxford Nutrascience (LON:ONG), which surged 29%.
Crop nutrition specialist Plant Impact (LON:PIM) also did well, rallying 9%.
LSE movers: Autonomy Corporation, Smith & Nephew, Sage Group, Diageo, IAG
Last updated: 08:23 10 Feb 2011 EST, First published: 09:23 10 Feb 2011 EST