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...Travis Perkins slid 3.8 per cent to £17.63 after an uneventful trading statement while Howden Joinery, its main rival, lost 2.9 per cent at 334.6p ahead of an update due Thursday....
...Primark owner AB Foods rose 3.1 per cent to £10.90 after Exane BNP Paribas advised a switch out of Tate & Lyle , which weakened by 2.2 per cent to 614p....
...He is chairman of Travis Perkins and a non-executive director of Tate and Lyle....
...Talk of stake-building supported Tate & Lyle , steady at 283¼p. Traders cited rumours of interest from financier Joao V Azevedo, who has close links with Portuguese starch maker Copam....
...Travis Perkins jumped 5.2 per cent to £16.05....
...The Archivist’s Story By Travis Holland Bloomsbury £12.99, 256 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 This powerful debut about the extinction of memory in Stalin’s Soviet Union tells the story of a disgraced...
...Also shortlisted: Bellway, Rank, Travis Perkins....
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