UK small caps finish 0.1 percent lower, while the FTSE AIM All ShareIndex is flat, compared to losses of 0.8 percent on the mid-caps and 0.6 percent on the blue chips.
AIM-listed ZincOx adds 23.7 percent, building on a 20 percent jumpthe previous session and continuing to take comfort from news that executivechairman Andrew Woollett and finance director Simon Hall have bought shares inthe developer of Asia's largest zinc recycling project.
The share price jump has taken the relative strength indicator (RSI) on thestock from deeply oversold territory at around 18 at the start of the week up toheavily overbought levels around 91.
Also on AIM, Waterlogic adds 0.5 percent after agreeing to buy CoolClear Water Group, thus opening the way into the Australian water cooler market.
"This acquisition provides yet another step change in growth for thecompany, and entry into a market which was largely untapped by Waterlogic,"Gurpreet Gujral, analyst at N+1 Singer, writes in a note.
"Waterlogic are paying around 6.5 times EBITDA for CCW, which we think is agood price considering it has a recurring revenue stream and will be EBITDAmargin accretive at the group level."
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