UK's Sainsbury's bottoms blue-chip index; Q2 like-for-like sales miss market view

** Shares in Sainsbury's SBRY.L down 3.3% at 348p, top loser on FTSE 100 .FTSE index

** British supermarket group logs 1.2% rise in Q2 like-for-like sales excluding fuel, missing analysts' consensus

** General merchandise and clothing sales down 2.9% in Q2

** Co, however, raises lower end of full-year profit outlook after posting a 3.6% rise in underlying operating profit for first half

** Up to last close, stock up ~11% so far this year

($1 = 0.7462 pounds)