The FTSE Small Caps index closes 0.3 percent lower, underperformimg a 0.2 percent dip in the mid-cap FTSE 250 (FTSE: ^FTMC - news) index and a 0.1 percent rise in the blue-chip FTSE 100 (FTSE: ^FTSE - news) .
Russian real estate developer Etalon Group falls 2 percent after saying its full-year 2012 earnings fell 15 percent as a number of transfers of properties to customers scheduled towards the end of 2012 would instead be transferred in 2013.
Turbotec Products slumps 48.8 percent after the company says it seeks shareholders' approval for the cancellation of its ordinary shares to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE: LSE.L - news) .
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