Government clients lift Softcat shares

FTSE 250 IT infrastructure firm Softcat (LON:SCT) saw its share price surge 9.34% to 1,530.78p (as of 15:30 GMT) after reporting that trading continued to be positive since its November update. Demand from the public sector remained strong and there has been some improvement in demand from corporate clients, but the company warned that performance for the second half of the year remained difficult to forecast.