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The figure slightly buoyed a session of sluggish trading that ended early, with the New York Stock Exchange closing at 1 p.m.

So it is hard not to be slightly buoyed by the unexpected news that the worldwide bestselling album by a female artist of the last 12 months has been Nelly Furtado's Loose, an unequivocally fantastic album.

Ratcliffe, who has been able to speak to his wife only ten times since her arrest, said her mood had been slightly buoyed by the fact that she could now be visited twice a week by their two-year-old daughter Gabriella.

The Dow Jones industrial average ended slightly higher, buoyed by a 4 percent gain in Procter & Gamble shares; the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index and the Nasdaq composite index both finished a shade lower.

Democratic morale was buoyed slightly by a Senate victory in Illinois, where congresswoman Tammy Duckworth beat the Republican incumbent, Mark Kirk.

However, Mirror parent company Trinity Mirror was buoyed slightly by growth from its network of regional newspapers, which saw a 2.6% rise in daily browsers, however the group as a whole was still down 2.2%.

The price of Brent crude was flat at $30.85 on Wednesday, buoyed slightly by better than expected trade figures from China and a reduction in the amount of oil stored in the US.

Nonetheless, the bank's total trading revenue of $3.15 billion slightly exceeded estimates, buoyed by a 15% rise in equity trading revenue to $1.93 billion.

The upper-caste BJP may perhaps do slightly better than previously, buoyed by recent victories in other, smaller states.

Tesco boss Philip Clarke has come out defiant, saying he has no intention of quitting, despite a 6% fall in profits at Britain's biggest retailer and £1.3bn of writedowns The former Co-op Bank chairman Paul Flowers has been charged with drug offences Stock markets have been buoyed by slightly stronger-than-expected Chinese growth data.

A worse-than-anticipated index figure for the business climate in Germany and a fall in eurozone manufacturing activity failed to keep European stocks ending the day slightly higher, as pricier crude buoyed oil stocks.