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Investment fund Ashmore Group (ASHM) announced that its assets under management increased by around 4.3 billion dollars (2.7 billion pounds) in the three months ended 30th September to 68 billion dollars (42.5 billion pounds). The firm said that this was largely driven by positive investment performance of 3.7 billion dollars (2.3 billion pounds), while it also saw net inflows of 0.6 billion dollars (0.37 billion ponds). The shares crept up by 2.4p to 358.6p.

Panmure Gordon reiterated its "sell" recommendation for Mothercare (MTC) with a 149p target price. The broker expects the maternity and childrenswear company to report a 10% decline in UK sales in its second quarter, offset by a 17% rise internationally. Panmure said that the firm faces intense competition from specialist stores as well as major supermarkets, making it very difficult for it to retain its UK market share and that the division will continue to lose money for the next three years. The shares declined by 4p to 209.75p.

Seymour Pierce upgraded its stance on JD Sports Fashion (JD.) from "hold" to "buy" with an increased target price of 1,000p, from 800p. The broker noted that the sporting goods retailer's shares have underperformed the sector by nearly 30% over the last year, claiming that the firm's core business is now valued at just 5.7 times earnings for the 2013 financial year. Seymour Pierce believes the firm will now need to focus on disposing of non-performing brands and accelerating its overseas expansion. Shares in JD Sports inched up by 1p to 760p

Valuation: Good science but ignores timing and sales risks Tissue Regenix has good science and, so far, the products look excellent. Key sensitivities are time to market, especially in the US, and proving clinical superiority but the equity market seems to be disregarding these risks and pricing in massive potential sales. A 2012 equity issue gave 31 July cash of £26.1m for development

http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.co.uk/researchreports/TissueRegenixQView111012.pdf

GECR WANdisco On Track To Hit The High Notes WANdisco is on track to meet its targets for the current financial year as it achieved a strong third-quarter performance. Given the group's strong subscription bookings and high visibility of earnings, we have taken this opportunity to update our financial model. With the shares up by more than 40% since we initiated coverage only two weeks ago (27th September 2012) and ahead by 142% since its IPO just over 4 months ago (1st June 2012), as the group moves into its strongest quarter, our stance at 425p remains speculative buy.

http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.co.uk/researchreports/loq111012flash.pdf

Close Brothers Group Sell 11-Oct-12 £90,149.46 Preben Prebensen 10,657 @ 845.92p

Alkane Energy Buy 10-Oct-12 £53,750.00 Roger McDowell 250,000 @ 21.50p

Richoux Group Buy 21-Sep-12 £462,499.99 Robert Rayne 5,781,250 @ 8.00p Richoux Group Buy 21-Sep-12 £462,499.99 Salvatore Diliberto 5,781,250 @ 8.00p Richoux Group Buy 21-Sep-12 £150,000.00 Edward Standring 1,875,000 @ 8.00p

PureCircle Ltd. (DI) Buy 10-Oct-12 £218,000.01 Tan Boon Seng 100,000 @ 218.00p PureCircle Ltd. (DI) Buy 10-Oct-12 £218,000.01 Tan Boon Seng 100,000 @ 218.00p PureCircle Ltd. (DI) Buy 10-Oct-12 £164,250.00 Tan Boon Seng 75,000 @ 219.00p

Tony Foye, the new Executive Director of Wilmington Group, a financial and legal training provider, has bought up 385,000 ordinary shares, significantly boosting his share in the company to 435,000 shares. Foye joined the firm at the beginning of last month and is to become the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company in November, replacing Basil Brookes, who is set to retire from the group at the end of the year. Foye purchased the shares at 130p each for a total of £500,500.

http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.co.uk/researchreports/EckohFlash111012.pdf

Chief Executive Peter Slabbert commented, "We continue to invest in innovative new products in both Protection & Defence and Dairy and believe that these industry leading technologies will deliver revenue growth and higher margins in the future. The uncertain economic climate will present challenges in the coming year but I am confident that both sides of Avon's business are well positioned to make further progress in 2013."

Strictly embargoed until 07:00 Thursday 11 October 2012 AVON RUBBER p.l.c. ("Avon", the "Group" or the "Company") Full-year trading update for 2012 Avon is pleased to report that trading in the second half of the financial year was, as expected, stronger than in the first half and that consequently the Board is confident that the Group's full year results for the year ended 30 September 2012 will be in line with current market expectations. We enter the new financial year with a strong order book in Protection & Defence, while in our Dairy business innovative new products and expanding global reach continue to deliver gains in market share. Net debt at the year end was £8.7m, a result of strong operational cash conversion which allowed the Group to fund investment in product development, in particular Project Fusion, which remains on track. Preliminary results will be announced on 21 November 2012.

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=201210110700044348O

Valuation: Order book visibility should benefit rating We are maintaining our full-year expectations. With a strong visibility in P&D, increasing market share gains in Dairy and the investment in product and market development set to deliver sustainable growth in revenues and enhance margins, we continue to view Avon Rubber as a long-term growth play. We maintain our relative peer rating based SOTP fair value of 370p per share.

http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.co.uk/researchreports/Avonrubberupdate111012.pdf

coverage Greggs, the hot pastry-based snack dispenser of choice for British politicians seeking a photo-opportunity, left a sour taste after it said LFL sales will remain negative in the final quarter of 2012. LFL sales fell 2.6% year-on-year in the 14 weeks to October 6th as consumers continued to tighten their purse strings.

"Total sales grew by 5.9 per cent year-on-year in the 14 weeks to 6 October 2012, driven by our strong new shop opening programme and continued success in wholesaling and franchising. Like-for-like sales were down 2.6 per cent in the 14 week period, an improvement on the 3.5 per cent decline in the second quarter but a smaller recovery than we had anticipated. Consumers continued to show restraint in their spending and the adverse weather in July, followed by flooding in parts of the country at the end of September, also impacted sales in the period. "Whilst we remain cautious about the economic outlook total sales will continue to benefit from the success of our new shop openings and expansion in wholesaling and franchising. However, we expect consumers to continue showing restraint and now anticipate like-for-like sales to remain negative in the final quarter. We will partially mitigate the impact of this lower like-for-like sales performance through tight control of costs and the increased profit contribution from wholesaling and franchising. "We are making the Greggs brand more accessible to customers through our new shop openings and wholesaling and franchising channels and this underpins our strategy to deliver long-term profitable growth for the benefit of shareholders, employees and the wider community."