** Next and Marks & Spencer continue to seeshare price weakness into the Christmas break, with brokerspainting a gloomy picture for festive sales
** Nomura cuts price targets on both stocks, pointing topoor November sales data
** Adds adverse weather likely to impact FY EPS
** Cut follows similar action on M&S by RBC on Monday,citing a likely slowdown in end-of-year sales
** Next, which has been one of the FTSE 100's mostconsistent performers in the last three years, down 9.5 pct inthe last three weeks - its worst such run since August 2011
** M&S down 12.7 pct over the same period, its worst runsince November 2010
** Next releases trading update on Jan 5, M&S Jan 7
(RM: alasdair.pal.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)