MARKET REPORT

BUY support from Morgan Stanley helped push Royal Bank

of Scotland 13p into the black at 293½p.

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey subsided 8¾p to 200¼p despite a bullish outlook after annual sales rose 5 per cent to 14,541. Designer clothing brand Ted

Baker was in fashion, up 282p to 3118p, after sales grew by 9 per cent over the eight weeks to Saturday, while reassuring festive trading lifted womenswear brand

Quiz 1p to 151p. Footwear retailer Shoe Zone stepped up 2½p to 161p as it maintained its final dividend despite falling annual profits but menswear firm Moss Bros was marked down 14½p to 75½p after a profit warning.

A 9.9 per cent rise in annual gross profit to a record £711.6million boosted recruitment firm PageGroup 45¼p to 516p.

A bullish update strengthened landscaping products group

Marshalls 10p to 457p. AIQ, a special-purpose acquisition company focused on the e-commerce sector which floated this week, soared 27½p to 36½p.