Stocks have drifted lower following their poor start. The European debt crisis talks overshadowed by the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strass-Kahn.European finance ministers look likely to give the go-ahead for a Portuguese bailout today in a meeting overshadowed by the arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn. There were fears that the talks to address the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis could be delayed after Strauss-Kahn was arrested for attempted rape in New York.Oilfield services group Wood Group slips after saying it is to return £1.05bn to shareholders by way of a tender offer to repurchase up to 32.1% of the issued ordinary share capital of the group. The strike price range has been set at 605p to 625p. The strike price range represents a discount of 6.1% to 3.0% to the closing price of Wood shares on 13 May, the last trading day before the announcement of the tender offer.However, London Stock Exchange moves ahead after saying it remains committed to its proposed merger with its Canadian counterpart TMX despite learning that TMX has received an approach from Maple, a consortium of Canadian financial institutions and pension funds.Pork sausages maker Cranswick is also whetting investor appetite. It enjoyed a record year of sales and profitability, despite sales growth petering out in the first quarter of 2011. Pre-tax profit rose 8% to £47.1m from £43.8m the year before.Data software firm Autonomy has headed skywards after saying it is to boost its cloud computing capability with a $380m acquisition of assets from assets from Iron Mountain. Cloud computing allows customers to store and retrieve their data from remote locations. Autonomy said the deal added over six petabytes of data under management and more than 6,000 customers to its customer base. Exhibitions organiser ITE is under pressure, even after it said it is now operating in a 'business as usual' environment in its main market Moscow after recovering from the global economic downturn. In the six months to 31 March, headline pre-tax profits climbed to £9.1m from £6.4m over the same period the previous year on revenues that were up to £53m from £39.2m. Education IT services provider RM falls after it swung to a pre-tax loss and said UK and US markets remain challenging amid ongoing spending cuts. Budget cuts in the UK and US have hurt demand for its services with trading conditions continuing to be very challenging, RM explained. FTSE 100 - RisersAutonomy Corporation (AU.) 1,808.00p +4.27%Antofagasta (ANTO) 1,147.00p +0.44%Anglo American (AAL) 2,929.00p +0.39%Inmarsat (ISAT) 620.00p +0.24%Rio Tinto (RIO) 4,098.00p +0.12%Xstrata (XTA) 1,359.00p +0.07%Sage Group (SGE) 292.30p +0.07%British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSY) 841.10p +0.07%Capita Group (CPI) 728.50p 0.00%Vedanta Resources (VED) 2,103.00p 0.00%FTSE 100 - FallersWolseley (WOS) 2,031.00p -3.70%Aggreko (AGK) 1,754.00p -3.15%Kingfisher (KGF) 274.00p -2.94%Smiths Group (SMIN) 1,203.00p -2.59%ARM Holdings (ARM) 570.00p -2.48%Weir Group (WEIR) 1,876.00p -2.29%Petrofac Ltd. (PFC) 1,446.00p -2.23%Pearson (PSON) 1,145.00p -2.22%ITV (ITV) 67.90p -2.16%Centrica (CNA) 310.80p -2.05%FTSE 250 - RisersDixons Retail (DXNS) 17.32p +7.11%Kesa Electricals (KESA) 149.00p +5.67%London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) 850.00p +2.72%Cranswick (CWK) 781.50p +1.96%Gem Diamonds Ltd. (DI) (GEMD) 273.30p +1.41%BTG (BGC) 254.90p +1.19%Britvic (BVIC) 441.00p +0.94%Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM) 701.00p +0.79%Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) 120.90p +0.67%Dignity (DTY) 750.50p +0.67%FTSE 250 - FallersCPP Group (CPP) 116.40p -5.37%Enterprise Inns (ETI) 87.70p -4.26%Hochschild Mining (HOC) 518.50p -3.71%ITE Group (ITE) 239.10p -3.71%Punch Taverns (PUB) 74.80p -3.48%Thomas Cook Group (TCG) 158.20p -3.24%Brown (N.) Group (BWNG) 286.70p -3.21%Cookson Group (CKSN) 696.00p -3.20%Bwin.party Digital Entertainment (BPTY) 136.00p -3.20%SVG Capital (SVI) 253.00p -3.18%