The FTSE small cap index falls 0.3 percent, broadly in-line with theblue-chip FTSE 100, but underperforming flat junior-listed FTSE AIM AllShare Index.
AIM-listed gold producer Anglo Asian Mining gains 2.8 percent afterannouncing a positive exploration update from new drillings at its Gedabek minein western Azerbaijan.
Salamander Energy falls 3.3 percent after saying that output fromthe Bualuang oil field has been "temporarily shut-in."
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