STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps underperform wider market
The FTSE Small Cap index and junior-listed AIM shares are flat to 0.1 percent higher, underperforming the FTSE mid caps and the FTSE blue-chips, with both up 0.4 percent.
Belvoir Lettings gains 5.3 percent as Cantor Fitzgerald raises its target price for the stock to 200 pence from 175 pence and reiterates is "buy" rating.
Oil rig maker Lamprell (LSE: LAM.L - news) falls 2 percent as Nomura cuts its stance on the stock to "reduce" from "neutral".
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