BUZZ-DS Smith: Stock up as Barclays initiates with "overweight"

** Packaging provider DS Smith (Other OTC: DITHF - news) (+4.5 pct) on top of FTSE midcap index after Barclays (LSE: BARC.L - news) initiates coverage at "overweight" (TP 465p)

** Brokerage says co to benefit from higher demand from FMCG clients as it generates stable cash flows with rising returns and dividends as 78 pct sales come from FMCG

** Falling pound also benefitting co, analysts add

** About a fourth of 30-day average volumes traded by 0714 GMT

** Up to Thursday's close, stock +c.0.38 pct YTD compared with a 3.68 pct rise in the STOXX Industrial Goods and Services Index ; co biggest gainer on index (Sanjeeban.Sarkar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)