TechMARK movers: Puricore bounces off bottom

Puricore has bounced back after the share price hit its lowest level for two years. The endoscope cleaning and food safety business has yet to publish a trading statement for 2010. Last year, it published a 2009 trading statement on the 20 January. The third quarter interim management statement was published on 8 November. Third quarter sales were 5% higher than one year before at $11.1m, with strong growth in endoscopy revenues helped by an acquisition. There was a decline in the food safety business revenue. Retailers should have decided their budgets for 2011 by nowand this will determine demand for this year.Pharma company AstraZeneca has gone ex-dividend today. The final dividend is 116.7p a share but the share price has fallen by less than the dividend payment. FTSE TechMARK - Risers Parity Group (PTY) 30.00p +8.11%Puricore (PURI) 50.50p +6.32%Pace (PIC) 204.80p +6.17%CSR (CSR) 410.00p +5.21%Torotrak (TRK) 22.75p +4.60%Oxford Biomedica (OXB) 5.80p +3.94%Microgen (MCGN) 135.50p +3.83%E2V Technologies (E2V) 114.75p +3.38%Psion (PON) 93.75p +2.46%Xaar (XAR) 239.00p +2.14%FTSE TechMARK - Fallers AEA Technology Group (AAT) 4.75p -5.00%Sepura (SEPU) 47.50p -3.06%AstraZeneca (AZN) 2,939.00p -3.05%Antisoma (ASM) 2.23p -3.04%Axis-Shield (ASD) 303.00p -2.88%Cobham (COB) 205.10p -2.05%Spectris (SXS) 1,378.00p -1.64%Kewill (KWL) 86.25p -1.43%KCOM Group (KCOM) 58.00p -1.28%Oxford Instruments (OXIG) 644.00p -0.92%