It was the UK supermarkets in focus on Thursday as they made up most of the list of top risers on Footsie, although the permier index was down a tad at lunch.
Investors are showing caution ahead of an ECB monetary policy decision and the key US non-farm monthly jobs figures out tomorrow (Friday).
FTSE100 is down around 7 points at 6,532 with Sainsbury's (LON:SBRY) the top gainer, up 6.91%.
Also rising almost 7% was Morrison's (LON:MRW), despite the supermarket chain reporting a slide in sales.
The firm said it is still on course for its full year profit expectations, although it lowered the range from £335mln to £365m from previous guidance of £325 to £375m.
That seemed to be enough for the City, which welcomed the news with the buying of the stock.
Marks (LON:MKS), the High Street outfitter, was also up again today, after yeserday's surge on the back of results, as more brokers weighed in with positive comments and ratings.
Shares gained 4.93% on the day.
The biggest loser was RSA Insurance (LON:RSA), which shed 3.43%.
Dairy Crest (LON:DCG) shares zoomed up over 12% as the market appeared to welcome news this morning that it has sold its dairies operation, which processes and distributes milk, to Germany's Mueller for £80mln.
Meanwhile, profits at the dairy food company fell 95% to £900,000 in its latest half year.
The firm said the combination will "create a more sustainable UK dairy sector by delivering economies of scale and cost efficiencies that will underpin investment in the industry".
Sula Iron (LON:SULA) was up over 9% but had risen over 23% earlier.
The firm's focus is on developing the Ferensola project in Northern Sierra Leone, which is highly prospective for iron and gold.
One of the two iron targets lies next to African Minerals’ (LON:AMI) Tonkolili deposit.
Earlier this week, shares in AMI surged as it set out the advantages to African Mineral's of Timis Corp's acquisition of London Mining's Marampa iron ore mine from the administrators, PwC.
Timis was established and is wholly owned by African Mineral's executive chairman Frank Timis.
In other small cap news, SeaEnergy (LON:SEA) rose over 14% after it said it's set to move into “sustainable profitability” as it reported growth across all its business units.
At the vanguard was its Return to Scene business (R2S), which collates 360-degree images from oil rigs.
In an updated on current trading, SeaEnergy said demand for its services “remains high” from operators in the UK North Sea, US and Mexico as well as new international markets such as Canada and Southeast Asia.
It is expecting at least one international oil major to adopt R2S by the first quarter of next year.
Forte Energy (LON:FTE) shares rose over 12%. On Monday this week, shares surged after the uranium-focused company revealed it was finalising work programmes, while noting some upbeat signals in the uranium market.
It camefollowing the firm's acquisition of a half share in two Slovakian projects owned currently by European Uranium.