BUZZ-Old Mutual: At 2-mth high after strong H1 results
** Insurance company's shares up 2.7 pct, top FTSE 100 gainer, after saying H1 adjusted operating profit rose 19 pct
** Co also hiked its interim dividend by 8 pct to 2.65p
** Stock top gainer on Stoxx 600 Insurance Index, and co's Johannesburg-listed shares top of JSE Top-40 index
** Shares (Berlin: DI6.BE - news) at their highest since May, with 16 pct of its 30 day avg volume having gone through in the first 30 mins of trade (venkateshasoumithri.mamidipudi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)