STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-FTSE small caps flat at the open

The FTSE Small Cap Index .FTSC is flat in early trade, underperforming the wider UK market which enjoys a bullish start to the session, with the FTSE 100 .FTSE up 0.8 percent and the FTSE 250 .FTMC rising 0.9 percent.

Newspaper distribution and aviation services firm John Menzies (MNZS.L) adds 7.8 percent after the company says it sees full-year results well above current market expectations. [ID:nPRrAEBC3a]

British engineering company Corac Group Plc (CRAU.L) sheds over 19 percent after the company announces a further delay to the field trial of its downhole gas compressors (DGC), which had previously been targeted for the fourth quarter of 2009 but is now expected to go live in the second-half 2010.

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