Sharewatch

Last week's big hitter on the stock market was Aukett. The UK's lone listed architect may only have ended up with a share price of 3.5p, but this represented a 21.7% rise over the five trading days.

Housebuilder Swan Hill endured a rather less impressive few days, after warning that its first-half profits were likely to be down on the first six months of last year. Its share price fell 3.4% to 70p.