Shares in online gaming and lottery company The Weather Lottery (TWL) have risen more than six-fold in the last year and the company took advantage of the share price strength on Friday to raise £160,000 through a placing of 53.33m shares at 0.3p per share.
Despite advising the market back in April that the outlook for 2010 was very bright Friday's trading update from digital marketing and corporate communications specialist Hargrove seemed to catch the market on the hop.
US stocks got off to a poor start after disappointing US economic data but they have recovered most of their losses.
Investment trust titan Foreign and Colonial (F&C) took a step back in the first half of 2010, though it outperformed its benchmark index.