UK Equities Market Data - FT.com...The latest UK equities market news from the Financial Times, with stock data, financial commentary and investor analysis on FT.com...UK Equities Market Data - FT.com...Small-caps: French Connection out of fashion...Troubled retailer falls after revealing disappointing Christmas results late on Friday which it said negated its positive first-half growth...FTSE lower as investors remain cautious...Shares edge lower with Barclays out of favour on concerns that it might kick off the bank earnings season on a downbeat note...Investors seek Bumi talks with Bakries...Shareholders want the Bakrie family and their partner Samin Tan to withdraw a motion calling for Nat Rothschild to be ousted from the company’s board...Randgold to spend $1bn developing mines...Gold miner seeks to double dividend as increased production of the precious metal combined with high prices more than trebled annual profits...Small-cap week: Coms surges on Smith share deal...Internet telephone service provider gains 168% after chief executive of MXC Capital increases stake...Unilever agrees to return to negotiations...Unilever feels the ‘time is right’ to see if Acas can help resolve the dispute after it closed its final salary scheme...Small-caps: Game bounces back...Agreement with lenders lifts troubled retailer while brewer Fuller’s rises after announcing the purchase of 15 pubs from Enterprise Inns for £22.9m...Bakrie vehicle moves to oust Rothschild from Bumi...Dramatic move is a setback for the UK financier, who had pledged to clean up corporate governance at the coal miner...Chartists have a cross to bear...Analysts’ favourite is little help in spotting trends, says David Schwartz...Broadband take-up boosts BT earnings...Pension deficit widens £1.6bn, but pre-tax profit for third quarter is up 48% at the UK telecoms group...RBS fights Libor dismissal claim by trader...Bank says former Singapore employee was guilty of gross misconduct for ‘improperly influencing’ rate setting...Insurers head gains with FTSE eyeing 6,000 level...London makes broad-based gains with only six FTSE 100 stocks falling as US jobs data and purchasing managers’ surveys lift sentiment...Small caps: Porvair buoyed by profits surge...Company sales bolstered by solid performance of its higher-margin metal filtration division...Miners power FTSE to six-month high...ENRC misses out on rally fuelled by Glencore and Xstrata’s proposed merger while disappointing results elsewhere drag on London index...Small-caps: MXC chief share buy lifts Coms...Internet telephone company’s shares jump 72.7% after Ian Smith, chief executive of MXC Capital, increases direct and indirect holdings to 27.6%...AstraZeneca unveils plans to cut 7,300 jobs...Anglo-Swedish drugs group, which pledged a $4.5bn share buy-back, reports 2% fall in revenues as competition from generics bites...Earnings doubts hang over Hong Kong rally...Falling margins and slow revenue growth cloud the outlook for the apparently buoyant Hang Seng and analysts say there are reason to be cautious...GlobeOp shares soar after purchase by TPG...US private equity group is to buy the London-listed hedge fund administrator for £508m, marking its return to the UK financial services sector...Small-caps: Takeover delay hits Synchronica...Smartphone messaging software maker slips 13% on news that offer from Myriad has yet to be agreed...Tognum venture powers Rolls-Royce to record high...Enginer maker’s marine acquistion with Daimler helps London index to its biggest gain in a month in a broad-based rally...