UK small caps are up 0.4 percent by midday trading, whilejunior-listed AIM shares are up 0.7 percent, against a 0.4 percent risefor the blue chips.
STV Group adds more than 5 percent after Liberum raises the stockof the Scottish television production firm's fair value to 440 pence from 370pence and holds a "buy" rating.
"We raised our FY13E and FY14E ITV TV advertising growth forecasts for ITVon the back of rising expectations for the UK TV advertising market: we expectmany of these same drivers to apply to STV, which holds the Scottish ITV1licence," Liberum says in a note.
Russia's top gold miner Polyus Gold rises 2 percent after sayingits third-quarter production rose 4 percent from the year earlier to 466,800troy ounces of gold, adding it was on track to produce between 1.59 million and1.68 million ounces in 2013.
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