Stocks look set to claw back a small proportion of recent losses after yesterday's shake-out, with City traders suggesting the blue-chip index will open around 20 points higher at 5,773.London-based pub group Capital Pub Company has fallen into the arms of rival pub group Greene King, which has agreed to pay 235p a share for Capital. The agreed offer, which values Capital Pub at about £70m, is substantially ahead of the 200p rival London pubs group Fuller's was willing to stump up for the operator of more than 30 pubs in the London area.Nathan Bostock, seen as a potential successor to chief executive of Stephen Hester at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), is to jump ship to fellow part-nationalised lender Lloyds Banking. Bostock will be leaving his job as Head of Restructuring & Risk at RBS to take up a new role as chief executive officer of Wholesale Banking at Lloyds Bank, though probably not until at least the end of February 2012.Real estate investment trust Land Securities said the outlook for development in London remains attractive while even the battered retail sector has its bright spots. "Retail demand has meant we have over the last few months also begun to step up our activity in retail development predominantly in edge of town locations and we now have a £275m, 1m square feet, pipeline of opportunities to meet the growing demand from food and fashion retailers for space," said Francis Salway, chief executive of Land Securities.--jh