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Renishaw, the specialist engineering firm, gets the once over from Tempus in the Times. The Gloucestershire based firm, which makes measuring equipment for production lines, gained 20% yesterday after reporting record half yearly revenues, up 11% over the last six months of 2011 versus 2010. China was weak but Europe and the Americas were both strong, Japan also put in a reasonable performance. Despite some concerns over the medical equipment side of the business, Tempus is persuaded by Renishaw’s growth plans and suggests there’s more to come. Buy but expect volatility.

Nigel Bond Group Managing Director of Domino Printing Sciences plc commented: "Domino's investment in TEN Media represents an exciting opportunity for the Group to become involved in the first automated web based disease prevention and traceability system for eggs. The agreement is an important step in the development and deployment of the business model and will provide a new standard in consumer food safety. In addition to food safety benefits, TEN Media's systems will help deliver important environmental and sustainability programs by significantly reducing waste caused by incidental egg breakage during transportation and handling of eggs." Mitchell Chait, President of NMI added: "In order to capture all egg production for this supermarket chain, it would require Domino to build and install up to 3000 compliance and coding systems across the U.S, which will have the capability of verifying and tracking approximately half of all carton eggs sold at retail in the U.S each year."

TEN Media announces the signing of an agreement with a major U.S. supermarket chain for the implementation of compliance verification and traceability coding systems in its egg supply chain 26 January 2012 In April 2011 Domino Printing Sciences plc ("Domino") announced that it had made a US$50m investment in TEN Media, a business established with NewMarket Impressions LLC ("NMI") to provide the global egg industry with compliance verification, traceability and on-egg printing solutions. TEN Media owns know how and specific intellectual property rights that places it in a unique position to supply such solutions, including the deployment of its patented technology for recording vital egg production data and marking it, in the form of consumer friendly codes, directly on the shells of table eggs. In addition to taking a 15% equity stake, Domino also has the exclusive rights to build and supply marking and coding systems to TEN Media. In excess of six billion dozen eggs are produced in the U.S. each year. Recent U.S. food safety legislation imposes new requirements upon U.S. egg producers to strengthen salmonella prevention efforts. TEN Media's patented technology enables a comprehensive, real time end-to-end solution to aid in salmonella prevention and its proliferation during the production, storage and transportation of shell eggs. Additionally, the TEN Media technology marks certified fresh dates and trace codes onto the shells of individual eggs, thereby enabling every egg to be identified and traced, from harvest to table and back. NMI, on behalf of TEN Media, has recently entered into an agreement with a major U.S. based supermarket chain to deploy TEN Media technologies and systems for the purpose of implementing compliance verification systems and to mark certified traceability and freshness coding on all eggs sold at all stores in the U.S. Domino will build and supply all laser printing and coding systems for TEN Media. Further detail on the size and timing of the financial impact will be announced upon finalization of a comprehensive deployment schedule. Domino expects to commence delivery of TEN Media's newest product line during 2012.

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Jeff Chatfield, Chairman, Avation PLC commented: "We are delighted to have expanded our portfolio with the opportunistic acquisition of these two new additional aircraft and to have acquired this using internal funding. These aircraft add to those scheduled for firm delivery from ATR over the course of the next few years, further demonstrating the Company's strategy to build a significant portfolio of these aircraft."

Acquisition of two further aircraft and lease to Virgin Australia Avation PLC is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire, an additional two new ATR72-500 aircraft. These aircraft will be leased by the Company to Australian carrier Skywest Airlines, which will operate the aircraft on behalf of Virgin Australia, pursuant to a 10-year wet-lease contract. The two airlines and the Company are making arrangements to take delivery of the new aircraft forthwith. It is anticipated that the leases will both commence within fourteen days of the date of this announcement. The operation of these aircraft constitutes a part of the Australian Regional Airline Network ("ARAN") Agreement between Skywest Airlines and Virgin Australia, under which, the parties have agreed that Skywest Airlines will operate a fleet of Aircraft on regional Australian routes on behalf of Virgin Australia and branded in the Virgin Australia brand. These two aircraft are to be leased as additional aircraft to the previously announced delivery stream. The acquisition costs have been funded by a combination of internal funds and finance lease from the vendor. These two aircraft are new and additional to the Company's previously announced firm and option orders direct with the ATR Manufacturer.

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Peter Gowers, Chief Executive of Safestore, commented: "Safestore has delivered another strong operational performance, our fifth successive year of growth in sales, profits and the total value of the property portfolio. Demand for self-storage has been increasing and as the market leader we have driven growth while making targeted investments in our future. Since the year end we have continued to see further growth in personal and business new lets. While we continue to monitor the wider economic conditions, our recent performance has been encouraging and as the market leader, the board believes we are well positioned to capitalise on the opportunities ahead."

Preliminary results announcement for the year ended 31 October 2011 'Market leader driving growth' Operational Highlights · Closing occupancy at record level of 3.21 million sq ft, 64.1% of Maximum Lettable Area ("MLA") · Average self storage rental rate up 2.2% to £26.11 per square foot ("sq ft") (FY2010: £25.55) · Revenue per Available Foot4 ("RevPAF") up 3.0% to £18.99 (FY2010: £18.44) · Ancillary sales up 8.3% to £13.2 million (FY2010: £12.2 million) · Two new stores opened in Paris, two replacement stores opened in the UK Financial Highlights · Revenue up 6.6% to £95.1 million (FY2010: £89.2 million) · Underlying EBITDA1 up 2.7% to £50.5 million (FY2010: £49.2 million) · EPRA2 Adjusted profit after tax3 up 4.8% to £16.1 million · EPRA Adjusted Earnings per share3 ("EPS") up 4.8% to 8.58 pence (FY2010: 8.19 pence) · Final dividend increased 9.2% to 3.55 pence per share (FY2010: 3.25 pence per share) · Profit after tax of £13.0 million (FY2010: £26.3 million) reflecting the impact of non-cash movements in the (loss)/gain on investment properties, exceptional items and the associated tax · Basic EPS of 6.95 pence per share (FY2010: 14.05 pence per share)

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Michael Queen, 3i's Chief Executive, said: "We have made a number of important strategic steps to strengthen each of our business lines in the period, including the reorganisation of our private equity business, signing our first investment in Brazil, and the launch of our Credit Opportunities Fund." "We have also generated good realisations from the portfolio, although, as we said in our November half-year results announcement, the operating environment is challenging given the deterioration in the macro-economic outlook and continued market uncertainty. Conditions have not improved since then, which has been reflected in a softening in the earnings performance of some of the portfolio over this period."

ashflow and balance sheet The Group had cash, cash deposits and undrawn committed facilities of £1,753 million as at 31 December 2011 (30 September 2011: £1,680 million) and gross debt had reduced to £1,659 million (30 September 2011: £1,722 million). Net cash divestment in the three month period was £159 million and net debt decreased by £136 million to £395 million (30 September 2011: £531 million).

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Not sure about your L2 question as I dont have L2 - will wait till I retire! is it a zero or an 'o' - could it be an 'o' - meaning the auction is open ?...not sure sorry.

is this what your looking for "Q.: What are Stock Auctions? A: Share auctions are relevant to Direct Market Access trading. The opening auction is held between 7.50 and 8.00 and the closing auction takes place between 16:30 and 16.35. There can also be an auction during a trading day for various other reasons like a share going in auction for 5 minutes( can be less or more) if it has moved by more than 10% within a certain timeframe - the idea is to stabilize the price a bit. Note that the closing auction occurs in SETs stocks which are order driven. Between 16.20 and 16.30 the system will constantly compute every shares Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) which can used as the closing price of the day. The VWAP is used as with certain illiquid stocks small trades at the end of the day can manipulate the closing price. The auction then begins at 16.30 and further helps to prevent manipulation of share prices in highly illiquid stocks. At this point trades and orders can still be entered into the system and can be changed or deleted whilst the auction is open. The auction then reaches a random end point with the system calculating the uncrossing price with buy and sell orders (that are at best) being matched (same happens for buy and sell limits). Of course there is nothing preventing you from placing a limit order above or below the true price (the last trades or the VWAP). In such cases your order will be filled depending on the other orders in the auction."

thinksmart - yes I missed it - was nightshift lastnight - I stayed up to see the marked open but was rather blurry eyed then went for a kip.

Peel Hunt has maintained is hold rating on high street retailer WH Smith after Christmas trading was "in line with subdued like-for-like [LFL] expectations." The company said total sales for the group were down 3% in the 21 weeks to January 21st, compared to the corresponding period a year earlier. LFL sales were down 5% in the first 21 weeks of the group's financial year, but that represents a slight improvement on the previously reported 6% dip in LFL sales for the first 10 weeks of the fiscal year.

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Boeing Reports Strong Fourth-Quarter Results and Provides 2012 Guidance CHICAGO, Jan. 25, 2012 -- Fourth-Quarter 2011 - Earnings per share rose to $1.84, driven by strong core performance - EPS includes favorable tax settlement of $0.52 compared with $0.50 in 2010 - Revenue rose to $19.6 billion on increased commercial airplane deliveries Full Year 2011 - Earnings per share increased 20 percent to $5.34 on record revenue of $68.7 billion - Operating cash flow increased 36 percent to $4.0 billion - Backlog grew to a record $356 billion including $103 billion of orders during the year Outlook for 2012 - EPS guidance of between $4.05 and $4.25 reflects strong operating performance offset by $0.83 of higher pension expense - Revenue guidance established at between $78 and $80 billion - Operating cash flow guidance set at greater than $5.0 billion includes $1.5 billion of discretionary pension contributions