London’s top flight index made modest gains after slumping into the red in the previous session.
The FTSE 100 Index was up 8.8 points to 5981.5, with pensions firm Standard Life seeing its stock value climb 5.2p to 343.7p, as it shrugged off recent market volatility to boost profits.
The company saw full-year group operating pre-tax profits rise more than 9% to £665 million, with assets under administration up 4% to £307.4 billion.
Heavyweight financial stocks have faced tough trading in recent sessions, after traders sparked a rout on the banking stocks amid fears some lenders were not holding enough capital to withstand a slowdown in global growth.
Under-fire commodity stocks also bounced back, as the price of oil was flat at 32.4 US dollars a barrel after struggling for direction in the recent sessions.
Miner Anglo American was up 1.4p to 433.1p, while Royal Dutch Shell jumped 2.5p to 1589.5p.
The pound was slightly up against the euro at 1.29, as David Cameron continued crunch talks in Brussels to secure a better deal for Britain within the EU.
In stocks, telecoms giant Vodafone saw its share price rise 0.35p to 215.9p after it announced it would raise £2.8 billion through bonds, which will be convertible into shares