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Eastern Europe-focused home-credit business International Personal Finance was the best performing stock on the FTSE 250 on Monday after analysts at Renaissance Capital named it as their top pick in the financial sector in that region."We like the resilience of the business model, while we love its earnings growth (+20% earnings per share compound annual growth rate 2012-2015E) in a region offering little," the Russian broker said.Precious-metals miners were putting in a mixed performance today with Centamin and Petropavlocsk among the highest risers and African Barrick Gold and Hochschild Mining trading firmly in the red.Chip designer Imagination Technologies was trading lower ahead of its full-year results on Wednesday. The company underwhelmed the market today with the announcement of a licence agreement with tech group Cavium to provide its latest 'Release 5 MIPS architecture'.FirstGroup was also down after UBS cut its target price for the transport stock from 122p to 100p after adjusting its numbers for the three-for-two rights issue that took place last week.Meanwhile, construction services firm Carillion pleased the market after being awarded a £130m contract by the Government of Oman to work on the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre Project.FTSE 250 - RisersInternational Personal Finance (IPF) 506.00p +5.53%Centamin (DI) (CEY) 39.06p +5.51%Thomas Cook Group (TCG) 121.30p +5.48%Petropavlovsk (POG) 145.90p +4.74%Morgan Advance Materials (MGAM) 277.00p +4.14%Berkeley Group Holdings (The) (BKG) 2,138.00p +3.99%Mitie Group (MTO) 262.80p +3.87%Carillion (CLLN) 264.20p +3.53%Intermediate Capital Group (ICP) 440.90p +3.50%Hays (HAS) 91.05p +3.35%FTSE 250 - FallersAfrican Barrick Gold (ABG) 126.90p -6.35%Kenmare Resources (KMR) 28.71p -4.08%Dialight (DIA) 1,161.00p -4.05%FirstGroup (FGP) 90.80p -3.10%Ferrexpo (FXPO) 150.00p -2.09%Imagination Technologies Group (IMG) 309.40p -1.90%Hochschild Mining (HOC) 208.20p -1.79%Halfords Group (HFD) 313.80p -1.69%Soco International (SIA) 369.80p -1.65%Hunting (HTG) 781.00p -1.51%