Sigma Capital Sees Profit Ahead of Views; Bango Expands Microsoft Agreement

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SIGMA CAPITAL GROUP PLC (SGM.LN), a private rented sector and regeneration specialist, said it expects a pretax profit for 2015 in excess of GBP2 million ($3 million), which is significantly ahead of current market expectations.

At 0858 GMT shares were up 8.5 pence, or 9.1%, at 102 pence.

BANGO PLC (BGO.LN), a mobile payments company, said it has expanded its agreement and integration with MICROSOFT CORP. (MSFT), meaning charging payments to the user's phone bills will become available to customers of the retail channel Windows Store.

Shares +7 pence, or 6.7%, at 111 pence.

SCANCELL HOLDINGS PLC (SCLP.LN), an immunotherapies developer, saw its shares rise after the publication of a paper in a well-known cancer journal describing the science behind the company's Moditope platform and the experimental results that support it.

Shares +1.3 pence, or 6.3%, at 21 pence.

MOSMAN OIL AND GAS LTD. (MSMN.LN), an oil exploration and development company, said it has issued a review notice to ORIGIN ENERGY LTD. (ORG.AU) under the deal to buy the South Taranaki Energy project in New Zealand.

Shares -0.3 pence, or 8%, at 2.9 pence.

FTSE Small-Cap +0.3%

AIM +0.1%

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January 05, 2016 04:44 ET (09:44 GMT)

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