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FTSE 100 movers: Aberdeen retreats from yesterday's big high

Tue, 19th Nov 2013 15:38

Fund manager Aberdeen was firmly in the red, pulling back after a 15 per cent surge on Monday following the announced acquisition of the Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Group from Lloyds, as well a strong increase in annual profits. Numis downgraded the stock to 'hold' this morning, although the broker lifted its target price from 465p to 495p.Intertek also fell as the product testing firm said that the industry-wide headwinds experienced in the first half have persisted for longer than expected.ITV shares were lower despite the broadcaster reporting strong third quarter advertising revenues, a 4% increase in audience shares and 3% growth in broadcast and online revenues. Meanwhile, budget airline easyJet surged after boosting annual profits by more than half and saying it is returning £308m to shareholders. easyJet said its allocated seating strategy, website improvements and its Europe by easyJet advertising campaign helped it to boost pre-tax profit in the year to September 30th, revealing it rose 51% to £478m.AMEC, the industrial engineering and project management group, was also higher after it maintained its guidance for the full year, saying that trading has been in line with expectations with order intake and forward visibility both strong in the third quarter.GSK was higher after announcing its intention to sell around one third of its holding in Aspen Pharmacare through a placing of ordinary shares in Aspen to institutional investors. FTSE 100 - RiserseasyJet (EZJ) 1,342.00p +6.85%Randgold Resources Ltd. (RRS) 4,627.00p +2.10%Amec (AMEC) 1,188.00p +1.80%Persimmon (PSN) 1,180.00p +1.29%Fresnillo (FRES) 927.00p +1.26%G4S (GFS) 259.80p +1.17%Sage Group (SGE) 348.00p +0.67%GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) 1,623.50p +0.62%Johnson Matthey (JMAT) 3,066.00p +0.56%British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSY) 825.50p +0.43%FTSE 100 - FallersAberdeen Asset Management (ADN) 473.70p -3.27%Intertek Group (ITRK) 3,078.00p -3.24%ITV (ITV) 181.80p -2.68%Smiths Group (SMIN) 1,397.00p -2.51%Anglo American (AAL) 1,408.50p -2.09%Petrofac Ltd. (PFC) 1,175.00p -2.08%International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (CDI) (IAG) 354.50p -2.07%WPP (WPP) 1,324.00p -2.07%William Hill (WMH) 361.90p -1.87%Marks & Spencer Group (MKS) 495.10p -1.67%NR

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