Footsie has lost some sheen as miners and property groups have given back some of their early gains.Brokers have been busy with a Citigroup review of the oil sector boosting Cairn Energy. The broker says that fast-tracking the multiwell exploration drilling programme in Greenland has made the group its preferred play on frontier exploration in 2010. Dana is its value play while Tullow could be the most exciting story over the first quarter.Miners are going well on another set of trade figures from China. Exports rose by 17.7%, but imports, largely raw materials including copper, jumped by 55%. Rio Tinto, Kazakhmys and Fresnillo are leading the miners higher. Silver miner Fresnillo is also going well after it dropped out of the race for Canadian mining company Canplats Resources.Barclays has received its third upbeat broker note in less than a week. This time it is Citigroup that reckons the bank is cheap, adding that the market is applying too low a rating to Barclays' earnings. Citigroup's target price is 413p, implying 30% upside.Property groups Land Securities and British Land are higher after the former was added to Goldman Sachs' 'conviction buy' list. Segro, which also updated on trading today, is higher after Goldman upgraded its rating on the stock to 'neutral'. Separately, Inès Reinman, Segro's head of Continental Europe, has resigned from the industrial property group barely a year she was promoted to the board. "Current trading and market conditions are in line with our expectations at the time of our Interim Management Statement issued on 5 November 2009," chief executive Ian Coull added.SABMiller is lower after it pulled out of the race to buy the Femsa stable of beer brands leaving the way clear for rival brewer Heineken.Cash strapped plumbers merchant Wolseley is to raise just under £24m from the sale of its Irish businesses. WIBHM, a company backed by private investor, is paying €26.5m for Wolseley Ireland Holdings Limited (WIHL). The consideration will be satisfied through the issue of a €20m loan note of one year duration, bearing a coupon of 10%, with the remainder of the settlement to be paid in cash on completion.Online gaming group PartyGaming has tied up an an exclusive, five-year agreement with state-controlled Danske Spil to provide an online gaming platform for poker and casino games in Denmark. Outdoor clothing retailer Blacks Leisure said it is mulling a possible equity fundraising in the first quarter to raise between £15m and £20m depending on investor demand. It hopes to roll out new stores, having closed 87 loss-making outlets in the fourth quarter of 2009. It said trading in the ongoing stores was very healthy with like-for-like sales increasing by 12.0% in the half year ended 7 JanuaryThe US Navy has awarded defence and aerospace group Cobham a contract worth up to $11.5m for the UK group. Cobham has won the Band 5/6 TWT (Travelling-wave Tube) Replacement Module Assembly (TRMA) development contract.