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Friday broker round-up UPDATE

Fri, 24th Jan 2014 08:35

Aberdeen Asset Management: Morgan Stanley reduces target price from 492p to 393p and downgrades from equal-weight to underweight.Afren: Morgan Stanley moves target price from 210p to 220p retaining an overweight rating.Ashmore Group: Morgan Stanley cuts target price from 410p to 365p and reiterates an equal-weight rating.Betfair Group: JP Morgan moves target price from 975p to 990p retaining its neutral rating.Brooks Macdonald: Numis moves target price from 1560p to 1570p maintaining its hold recommendation.BTG: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 610p to 635p and keeps a buy recommendation.Cairn Energy: Morgan Stanley cuts target price from 375p to 350p and retains its overweight rating.Charles Stanley: Canaccord Genuity ups target price from 450p to 500p and retains a hold recommendation.Chemring Group: Citi takes target price from 230p to 260p maintaining a neutral rating.Close Brothers Group: Numis increases its target price up to 1110p, while keeping a reduce rating. Canaccord Genuity ups target price from 1430p to 1500p upgrading from hold to buy.Compass Group: JP Morgan raises target price from 950p to 1060p and keeps its overweight rating.Dairy Crest: Goldman Sachs reduces target price from 404p to 351p and stays with its sell recommendation.Domino Printing: Berenberg initiates with a target price of 860p and a hold recommendation.Domino's Pizza: Citi cuts target price from 675p to 635p, while leaving its buy recommendation unchanged.EnQuest: Morgan Stanley reduces target price from 135p to 125p and maintains its underweight rating.Faroe Petroleum: Morgan Stanley lowers target price from 130p to 120p and keeps an underweight rating.First Quantum Minerals: Numis downgrades from add to hold with a target price of 1200p.Genel Energy: Morgan Stanley ups target price from 1000 to 1070p and reiterates an equal-weight rating.Greene King: JP Morgan raises target price from 880p to 960p staying with its neutral rating.Hellermann Tyton: JP Morgan ups target price from 335p to 360p and maintains an overweight rating.InterBulk: Westhouse Securities upgrades from add to buy with a target price of 7.8p.InterContinental Hotels Group: Citi raises target price from 2050p to 2370p and stays with its buy recommendation. JP Morgan increases target price from 1800p to 2030p and keeps a neutral rating.Ladbrokers: Credit Suisse lowers target price from 170p to 160p and reiterates an underperform rating. Citi cuts target price from 140p to 125p keeping its sell recommendation.lloyds Banking Group: Investec downgrades from buy to hold with a target price of 85p.London Stock Exchange: JP Morgan raises target price from 1539p to 1622p, while its underweight rating remains unaltered. UBS increases target price from 1680p to 1830p, while maintaining a neutral rating.Marston's: JP Morgan ups target price from 160p to 180p and stays with its neutral rating.Mitchells & Butlers: JP Morgan takes target price from 400p to 460p and reiterates its neutral rating.Ophir Energy: Morgan Stanley reduces target price from 465p to 380p, while leaving its overweight rating unchanged.Pearson: Nomura cuts target price from 1140p to 1050p and keeps a reduce rating. Morgan Stanley lowers target price from 1225p to 1150p maintaining an underweight rating. Credit Suisse reduces target price from 1530p to 1410p, while its outperform rating is kept. Societe Generale reduces target price from 1300p to 1200p and keeps a hold recommendation.Petra Diamonds: Numis shifts target price from 165p to 170p and reiterates a buy recommendation.PlayTech: JP Morgan increases target price from 825p to 900p and maintains an overweight rating.Premier Oil: Morgan Stanley reduces target price from 450p to 350p retaining an equal-weight rating.Restaurant Group: Citi increases target price from 545p to 650p, while its neutral rating remains unchanged. JP Morgan raises target price from 665p to 750p and leaves its overweight rating unaltered.Salamander Energy: Morgan Stanley cuts target price from 165p to 130p staying with its equal-weight rating.Serco Group: JP Morgan takes target price from 523p to 575p retaining its overweight rating.SOCO International: Morgan Stanley ups target price from 390p to 410p, while staying with its underweight rating.Spirit Pub: Citi shapes target price from 95p to 90p keeping a buy recommendation.St. James's Place: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 755p to 810p and maintains a buy recommendation. Nomura raises target price from 759p to 845p keeping its buy recommendation. Goldman Sachs takes target price from 810p to 840p and stays with its buy recommendation.Thomas Cook Group: JP Morgan ups target price from 200p to 230p and keeps an overweight rating.TT Electronics: Berenberg initiates with a target price of 247p and a buy recommendation.TUI Travel: JP Morgan increases target price from 410p to 480p retaining its overweight rating.Tullow Oil: Morgan Stanley reduces target price from 1510p to 1175p, while keeping its overweight rating.Whitbread: Citi raises target price from 4000p to 4280p, while downgrading to neutral. JP Morgan increases target price from 3950p to 4500p staying with its overweight rating.William Hill: Credit Suisse cuts target price from 465p to 445p and retains an outperform rating. Citi reduces target price from 480p to 400p, while leaving its buy recommendation unaltered.Workspace Group: Liberum Capital raises target price from 584p to 632p retaining its buy recommendation. Investec increases target price from 560p to 620p and maintains a buy recommendation.Xcite Energy: Morgan Stanley takes target price from 160p to 180p and reiterates an overweight rating.
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Xcite continues progress in Dundee

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Xcite Energy triples agreement to £150m

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Xcite raises £4.2m to develop North Sea oil field

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