UK small caps fall 0.2 percent, outperforming the mid-caps,down 0.8 percent and the AIM index, which falls 0.3 percent.
Plastics group Carclo falls 4.7 percent after reporting decreasedrevenue and profit from 2012 and underlying operating profit slightly belowexpectations.
"Revenue of 86.5 million pounds ($134.30 million) was slightly below our 89million pound, with small misses in Technical Plastics and PrecisionEngineering," Liberum says in a note, nevertheless reiterating its "buy" stanceon the stock as it felt performance was placed to bebound in the second half.
AIM-listed Eckoh firms 3.2 percent after reporting revenues 6percent higher than last year, announcing the acquisition of Veritape andlifting its dividend by 5 pence.
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