date:Apr 15, 2014
wever, investors' lingering nerves over the situation in Ukraine were reflected in the fact that retail and food stocks - often used as defensive stock market plays in an uncertain environment - were the best performers.
Supermarket retailer Sainsbury rose 5.5 percent to top the FTSE's leaderboard of best-performing stocks, while Sainsbury's rival Tesco also progressed by around 3 percent.
It's understandable that people are going for defensive stocks today, given the worries that the market c