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While Home Retail benefited from the strong performance at Argos its Homebase business was a different story. Total sales at the home improvement and garden chain declined by 4.5% to £453m as the company closed three stores during the period, reducing its portfolio to 337.

The Financial Director of Home Retail, Richard Ashton, on Thursday sold 249,975 shares in the household goods retailer, three weeks after the company raised its full-year profit expectations on the back of increased sales at its Argos business over the Christmas period. The shares were sold at 127.52p a time, costing the director £318,768 altogether. In an update published in mid-January, the company said sales at Argos stores open more than a year rose 2.7% in the 18 weeks to January 5th, ahead of a consensus forecast for a 0.2% increase and a 1.4% climb in its second quarter. The results were driven by growth in sales of electrical products, white goods and toys as consumers picked up gifts during the festive season. Homewares and jewellery were the weaker performers.

Workspace Group: Seymour Pierce increases target price from 330p to 375p and reiterates a buy recommendation.

Weir Group: UBS raises target price from 2000p to 2300 keeping a buy recommendation.

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon ups target price from 565p to 763p and upgrades from hold to buy.

UBM: JP Morgan lowers target price from 800p to 770p downgrading to neutral.

TUI Travel: Barclays shifts target price from 320p to 325p and keeps an overweight rating. Deutsche Bank takes price target from 265p to 275p leaving its hold recommendation unaltered.

Smiths & Nephew: Credit Suisse ups target price from 690p to 725p reiterating a neutral rating. UBS revises target price from 1250p to 1300p, while leaving its buy recommendation unaltered.

Rio Tinto: HSBC revises target price from 3620p to 4180p, while keeping an overweight rating.

Reckitt Benckiser: Investec increases target price from 3600p to 4260p and leaves its hold recommendation unchanged. Panmure Gordon moves target price from 3975p to 4130p maintaining a hold rating.

Rathbose Brothers: Numis upgrades to hold with a target price of 1200p.

Punch Taverns: Barclays ups target price from 10p to 16.50p upgrading from equal-weight to overweight.

Premier Farnell: UBS upgrades to neutral with a target price of 155p.

Land Securities Group: Barclays upgrades to overweight.

Imperial Tabacco Group: Investec reduces target price from 2580p to 2450p and downgrades from buy to hold.