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Hays returns to profit growth despite 8% net fee decline
Improved trading momentum gives bullish broker impetus to lift price target
Hays tips full-year profit at top of consensus range
Hays sells six European operations to Meraki Capital for £4 million
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Corporate housekeeping dominated the morning's news, with Smiths Group closing out a multi-billion-pound divestment programme and three UK-listed groups, SThree, Kingfisher and Oxford Biomedica, all lifting or reiterating guidance on improving underlying trends.