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BUZZ-Barclays: Q2 core business performance boosts stock

** Bank Barclays' shares up 5.7 pct, top of the FTSE, after saying core pretax profit for H1 up 19 pct to 3.97 bln stg

** "BARC has produced a 6% PBT beat in its core business (ex corp centre) in Q2," Jefferies analysts say

** Stock down more than a fifth since pre-Brexit to Thursday's close

** BARC second-largest gainers on the Stoxx 600 Banks Index ; sector is up 2.3 pct and best performing in Europe

** A quarter of co's 30-day avg vols gone through by 0815 GMT (venkateshasoumithri.mamidipudi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)