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...Tesco slides amid worries over turnround...Analyst warns defending profit in recent years has cost the Tesco brand its trust and relevance...Small-caps: Thomas Cook surges 30%...Investec Securities said investors were underestimating the troubled holiday group’s chances of survival...Small-caps: Optical component maker off 17%...Gooch & Housego downgraded to ‘hold’ by Investec Securities after issuing a full year profit warning as demand for its products suffered...Tullow leads London off seven-month peak...A downbeat market reaction to a drilling report from the oil explorer chimes with a cautious mood among investors in the wider market...Deepwater case may hold many twists for BP...The largest and most complex litigation the US has seen for more than a decade may see possible pre-trial settlements...Amec launches buy-back and lifts dividend...FTSE 100 engineering services specialist, boosted by record order book, looks at using some of its £500m cash pile for further acquisitions...Small-caps: IP Group gains on Oxford Nano stake...Group that backs companies spun out of universities advances 11.9% over its 21.5% holdings in the DNA technology group...BP fuels FTSE 100 advance on hope of US settlement...Hopes that the oil group was nearing a settlement about its liabilities for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill lifted it by 2.1 per cent to 499¼p...CPP says it could go bust in weeks...Move follows an investigation by the watchdog into the FTSE 250 company’s sale of credit card and identity protection products in the UK...Vista makes rival £1.2bn bid for Misys...US private equity firm is understood to be offering about 360p a share to derail banking software company’s proposed tie-up with Temenos...Small-caps: Production slump knocks Petroneft...Russian-focused explorer says production levels down to 2,300 barrels per day compared with its yearly highs of 3,000...CRH spearheads advance as FTSE edges higher...Aggregates maker leads blue-chip gains in London with jump to a seven-month high after results of peer help override US contract worries...Small-cap week: Aminex recovers...Investors who refused to sell in panic after the oil explorer reported disappointing drilling results in Tanzania see shares bounce back to 4p...Small-cap week: Thorntons turns sweet...Chocolate manufacturer and retailer surges 59% despite plans to slash its dividend and close 120 high street stores over the next three years...Anglo plays down threat from Glencore deal...Cynthia Carroll, chief executive, plays down the effect on its ambitions of the proposed merger of rival Xstrata with the commodity trader...Small caps: Alumasc falls after profit slump...Construction group down 30.8% while financial services company Merchant House share price suffers over FSA probe into Pritchard Stockbrokers...Tie-up talk boosts Imperial Tobacco...Group outperforms flat London market after Deutsche note on further consolidation in the tobacco industry...Glencore reveals more IPO rewards...The world’s largest commodities trading house discloses the identity of a further group of executives holding stakes of between 1% and 3%...Glencore merger set to put shine on dull zinc...Metal set to be transformed as merger plans between Glencore and Xstrata would give them significant share of mining and smelting markets...Banks rise but FTSE ends lower...London’s equity markets have a cautious session, restrained by further confusion over plans to bail out Greece...