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The below stocks have been identified as having potential to register bigger than normal share price moves (up or down) today based on the news cited
Sky (SKY) - Comcast has improved its bid for Sky by 37% to 1475p/share in response to Fox yesterday upping its bid to 1400p. Closing price 1497.10p (Bloomberg)
Capita (CPI) - Awarded 6yr contract worth ~£109m by DfE's Standards and Testing Agency; Sells ParkingEye for £235m cash. Closing price 161.40p (Dow Jones Newswires)
Asos (ASC) – FY sales growth slows to 22%, cuts full year guidance to lower end of range; backs mid-term guidance. Closing price 6502.00p (Reuters)
Dunelm (DNLM) – expects FY pre-tax profits -6.4% vs May guidance of “moderately below” last year. Closing price 484.60p (Dow Jones Newswires)
Computacenter (CCC) – expects FY to comfortably beat guidance provided in late April. Closing price 13740p (Dow Jones Newswires)
Dart (DTG) – says annual profit for its current financial year would substantially exceed market expectations. Closing price 745.50p (Reuters)
(Sources: Company newswires, Bloomberg, CNBC, FT, Reuters, Wall Street Journal)
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| Stock | Code | Close | High | Low |
| ANGLO AMERICAN | AAL | -3.9% | -2.6% | -4.4% |
| BHP BILLITON | BLT | -3.1% | -1.6% | -3.4% |
| GLENCORE | GLEN | -4.8% | -2.4% | -5.1% |
| KAZ MINERALS | KAZ | -6.4% | -3.4% | -6.8% |
| RIO TINTO | RIO | -3.3% | -1.9% | -4.2% |
| VEDANTA RESOURCES | VED | -1.0% | 0.5% | -1.2% |
| SKY | SKY | -0.5% | 1.4% | -2.0% |
| BURBERRY | BRBY | -4.0% | -2.2% | -5.0% |
| BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS | BDEV | 3.5% | 3.9% | 0.1% |
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