1428 GMT - Tesco PLC is among the most mentioned topics across news items over the past seven hours, according to Factiva data, after the U.K.'s number one grocer by market share reported a strong Christmas performance and backed its full-year guidance "despite the challenging conditions ahead." A large part of the grocer's success is due to discounting, which can spell bad news for margins, Hargreaves Lansdown says. "The tug of war between pricing and volumes is clearly producing a good result, which is why profit expectations have been reiterated, but it's still hardly an ideal state of affairs for the industry's big names," HL analyst Sophie Lund-Yates writes. Noting the higher sales and guidance, Citi analysts say they continue to see value in the shares "notwithstanding the prevailing macro uncertainties." Dow Jones & Co. owns Factiva. (ian.walker@wsj.com.)


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