The FTSE Small Caps Index is down 0.05 percent, in line with a 0.07-percent weaker blue-chip FTSE 100 (FTSE: ^FTSE - news) index but underperforming a 0.1 percent stronger FTSE 250 (FTSE: ^FTMC - news) mid-caps .
Morgan Sindall (LSE: MGNS.L - news) falls 3.8 percent after the construction group says its performance in the first quarter was slightly below the board's expectations.
London Mining (Other OTC: LIIGF - news) rises 3.2 percent as the company sticks to its 2013 targets and says the first quarter sales have risen.
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