The FTSE AIM index falls 0.1 percent, outperforming a 0.4-percentdrop from the midcaps, while lagging the FTSE Small Cap index which trades flat.
AIM-listed exploration and production firm Antrim Energy jumps 46percent in brisk trade after the UK Department of Energy and Climate Changeagrees to amend the terms of its UK Central North Sea Licence P077.
Trading volume in Antrim stands at more than six times its 90-day dailyaverage, against the AIM index on just a third of its 90-day daily average.
Small Cap coal miner New World Resources firms 5.7 percent afterpeer JSW said on Monday it is looking at an offer to buy some of itsmining and coking assets.
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