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LONDON (ShareCast) - Kesa Electricals (LSE: KESA.L - news) , best known in the UK for its Comet (COTN.SW - news) electricals stores, has confirmed it is in talks to sell off its Swiss operation.

The company is in exclusive negotiations with Swiss electrical retailing chain FUST, which is interested in buying Kesa's Swiss operations for SF20m (£11.4m). Kesa said the sale will not result in a paper loss for the group.

Heritage Oil (Frankfurt: A0NG6K - news) is also up after it successfully completed a placing to raise £132m yesterday. The group placed 25.4m new shares with institutions at a price of 520p per share, which represented a premium of 2.9% to the closing price on 12 June 2009.

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