** Consultancy firm RPS Group Plc's shares rise asmuch as 5.2 percent, driven by comments larger Australian peerWorleyParsons Ltd made about market conditions inAustralia and the United States.
** RPS is among the top percentage gainers on the FTSE-250MidCap Index on the London Stock Exchange.
** Peel Hunt Christopher Bamberry and market makers atWinterflood Securities cite a read-across from WorleyParsonscomments as a reason for RPS's share price surge.
** Capital investment in non-resource infrastructure,particularly in environmental services, water and powergeneration and transmission, has a stronger outlook,WorleyParsons says.
** The Australian mining services company also guidestowards positive outlook in North America for water andenvironment services to unconventional oil and gas customers.
** WorleyParsons has a market capitalisation roughly fourtimes the size of RPS.
** Comments from WorleyParsons are in line with those madeby RPS when it reported results in July, Bamberry says.
** Bamberry has a "buy" rating on and a target price of 302pence on RPS's stock, which hit a high of 295 pence earlier onWednesday.