Below are some of the main news-driven movers on the at 4pm.
RISERS
Proteome Sciences (LON:PRM) up 10.2%. No news from the company since last week’s 2014 figures but shares have been choppy since.
Concha (LON:CHA) up 8.4%. The company received notice of the exercise of 5mln warrants raising £400,000.
Motive Television (LON:MTV) up 8.1%. It has added a record feature to its over-the-top television app, TabletTV, which allows its users to schedule to record programmes a week in advance.
FALLERS
Phorm (LON:PHRM) down 14.6%. For the second day in a row, Phorm holds the end of day top slot after the company announced earlier this week that it made a pre-tax loss of £40mln in 2014 and said it was exploring funding options in the short term.
North River Resources (LON:NRRP) down 10.8%. Little news other than that James Beams has become CEO while senior independent director Brett Richards is leaving the board after the latest round of funding.
Hargreaves Services (LON:HSP) down 9%. In a trading update today,the company said British power station closures and tough coal markets are hitting miner although trading is still on track.
Below are some of the main news-driven movers on the FTSE 350 at lunch.
RISERS
BTG (LON:BTG) up 7.5%. An upgrade from broker Peel Hunt sent shares higher. It said recent acquisitions and a rich pipeline meant shares are likely to outperform this year.
Jimmy Choo (LON:CHOO) up 6.5%. Barclays reiterated its ‘buy’ rating and put a 208p target price on the shares, some 45p above its market value.
Ocado (LON:OCDO) up 4.3%. Shares have been climbing since Tuesday and have shown no sign of letting up. The company said it is in advanced talks with international retailers about selling the use of its technology, and is also considering the future of its tie-up with Waitrose.
FALLERS
Zoopla (LON:ZPLA) down 4.7%. A new Nationwide survey showed house prices unexpectedly fell 0.2% in June, their first decline since February. Annual house price inflation was 3.3%, down from 4.6% in May and its slowest pace since June 2013.
ICAP (LON:IAP) down 3.9%. The stock was trading ex-dividend today.
Homeserve (LON:HSV) down 3.5%. Ditto. Like ICAP, Homeserve was trading ex-dividend today.
Below are some of the main early news-driven movers .
RISERS
Spectra Systems (LON:SPSY) up 24%. The banknote authentication company said it signed a nine-year with an unnamed Chinese secure documents manufacturer to supply US$5.6mln of high margin materials and up to US$0.5mln of hand-held readers.
APR Energy (LON:APR) up 9.3%. Similar to Spectra, the company signed an estimated US$30mln contract to provide a gas turbine power plant for an industrial customer in Egypt.
FTSE 350: Serco (LON:SRP) up 7%. Investors continued to lap up shares after the company said yesterday that trading in the first half of 2015 has been better than expected and maintained its expectations for the full year.
FALLERS
Strategic Minerals (LON:SML) down 21.9%. The company said the Cobre mine in New Mexico is not sufficient to cover its overheads due to the collapse in the export price for iron ore “making international sales uneconomic.”
Premaitha Health (LON:NIPT) down 9.5%. Premaitha said it is to raise £8mln via a share placing of 40mln shares at 20p per share to fund its IONA test.
FTSE 350: Hunting (LON:HTG) down 6.5%. The oil services company said it expected a fall in operating profit for the year of between 50% and 75% as it continues to struggle in a weak oil and gas market.