The FTSE Small Caps Index closes 0.5 percent higher while thejunior-listed FTSE AIM All Share Index ends up 0.3 percent, with bothoutperforming a 0.1 percent gain on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index
The FTSE 250 Mid Caps Index, which hit fresh record highs this week,closes down 0.2 percent.
Forbidden Technologies, a company which develops and markets anonline video platform, rises 8 percent after reaching a deal for TV companyChannel 5 to use its product.
Gold exploration company Nyota Minerals slumps 10 percentafter rival miner Centamin sells down some of its stake in the companywith the disposal of 9.4 million Nyota shares.
"Sale of stock by Centamin knocks confidence," broker SP Angel writes in aresearch note, adding "we would avoid Noyta shares for now."
A fresh setback on Asian and emerging markets equity indexes, which fall onconcerns over monetary tightening in China, hits investment trusts exposed tothat asset class.
Baillie Gifford Japan Trust Closed Fund falls 1 percent whileFidelity Asian Values weakens by X percent.
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