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BUZZ-M&S: Top of the STOXX on earnings beat, margins outlook

** Marks & Spencer best performing & most active among top UK and European stocks after forecast beating rise in underlying H1 profit & a brighter outlook for non-food profit margins. ** Stock jumps 7 pct, poised for best day in more than 5 years. ** Some short-covering at work, trade

MARKET COMMENT: UK Stocks Set For Higher Open Ahead Of Services PMI

UPDATE 2-ABF's Primark shrugs off warm autumn with 10 pct sales rise

* FY adjusted EPS 104.1 pence, up 6 pct * Primark profit up 29 pct, sugar profit down 56 pct * Expects further large fall in sugar profit in 2014-15 * Sees limited opportunity to grow EPS in 2014-15 * Shares up 2.7 pct (Adds detail, CEO, analyst comment, shares) By

UK BROKER RATINGS: Credit Suisse Upgrades Schroders, Cuts Hargreaves

Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE

Aberdeen Asset Management: Credit Suisse ups target price from 440p to 455p and keeps a neutral rating. Anglo Eastern: FinnCap initiates with a target price of 880p and a buy recommendation. Ashmore: Credit Suisse downgrades to underperform. Barclays: Citi moves target price from 300p to 315p stay

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: SuperGroup Scares Market On Warm Halloween

UPDATE: SuperGroup Cuts Guidance As Retailers Burned By Warm Weather

MARKET COMMENT: London Jolted Higher By Japanese Stimulus

BUZZ-SuperGroup: profit warning

** UK fashion retailer SuperGroup slides to 4-1/2 month lows on a profit warning. ** Becomes latest retailer to see demand for winter clothing crimped by unusually warm autumn; Next cut its profit forecasts earlier in the week. ** SuperGroup down 8.3 pct, top FTSE 250 faller by some m

SuperGroup Downgrades Guidance As Warm Weather Causes Uncertainty

UK BROKER RATINGS: HSBC Upgrades Next To Overweight From Neutral

Thursday tips round-up: Standard Life, Next

Standard Life has a lot on its plate, but it also has attractive prospects. To start off with, Standard Life now manages £290bn on behalf of savers and investors which it then directs into equities and bonds. Hence, the bigger the company gets the more it is being seen as a proxy for equity and debt

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Shares Gain On Positive Earnings Despite Fed

Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

Afren: Deutsche Bank cuts target price from 130p to 110p retaining its hold recommendation. Antofagasta: JP Morgan lowers target price from 760p to 755p and reiterates a neutral rating. Investec lowers target price from 717p to 704p and keeps a hold recommendation. Balfour Beatty: Jefferies cuts ta

MARKET COMMENT: FTSE 100 Closes At 3 Week High Ahead Of Fed Decision