FTSE falls on miners and banks but ITV stars

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Metal prices also eased as investors shifted some of their money back to the dollar, which weighed on mining stocks.

Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Eurasian Natural Resources, Anglo American, Xstrata, Ferrexpo, Vedanta Resources and Lonmin were down 0.3 to 2.3 percent.

ITV topped the FTSE 100 gainers, rising 4.8 percent and extending the previous session's 6.3 percent gains on market talk of a possible bid from Endemol.

Marks & Spencer lost 2.4 percent after HSBC downgraded the retailer to "neutral" from "overweight".

InterContinental Hotels added 0.6 percent after the world's largest hotelier reported a 29 percent rise in first-half operating profits, but said growth had slowed in the second-quarter, particularly in the United States.

(Editing by Rory Channing)

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