UK small caps firm 0.4 percent, outperforming thewider market, with junior-listed AIM shares tradingflat, mid-caps off 0.1 percent, and blue chips 0.1 percent higher.
Tricorn Group, a manufacturer of pipe and tubingassemblies, drops more than 6 percent after it says it expectspretax profit for the six months to end Sept. 2013 to beslightly below its expectations.
Gold explorer Premier Gold slides 24 percent aftersaying that it has come up against resistance at theCholokkaindy gold licence in the Kyrgyz Republic from localgangs trying to hold up the work programme there.
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