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BUZZ-Mothercare: worst day in a year amid currency headwinds

** Mothercare (LSE: MTC.L - news) dives off 1.5 yr highs hit recently & poised for biggest one-day drop since last July in robust volume

** Currency headwinds hit Q1 international retail sales -- down 1.3%

** Stock, down 7.7%, by far the biggest faller on the FTSE Small Cap index, with normal 90-day daily avg having gone through in >1 hour (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : tricia.wright1.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)