BUZZ-Royal Mail: gains after co closes defined benefit pension scheme
** Royal Mail (LSE: RMG.L - news) shares up 1.5 pct; near top of FTSE 100 as co says to close defined benefit pension scheme in March 2018
** Co shuts defined benefits scheme after concluding it cannot extend pension payments beyond 2018
** A quarter of 30-day daily avg volume through
** Up to Wednesday's close, stock had fallen 9.3 pct YTD compared with an 8.9 pct rise in the FTSE 350 Goods and Services index (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) :sanjeeban.sarkar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)