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Takeover talk and better markets push Tomkins

By Bryce Elder and Neil Hume

Published: January 8 2010 09:00 | Last updated: January 8 2010 20:40

Trading optimism combined with takeover speculation to help push Tomkins to a two-year high on Friday.

Shares in the engineer gained 2.7 per cent to 212p, helped by a Collins Stewart note arguing that consensus forecasts were too low.

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