Dominos Pizza leads FTSE fall despite selling record numbers during Superbowl XLIV

The recession busting company fell 2.89 pct, as selling pressure caused it to fall.

The FTSE 100 was down overall, despite Miners boosting it during early trades.

Xstrata and Randgold in particular gained the most with shares in the mining companies up 44p and 273p respectively with a jump in profits for both, with hiked dividenends for Xstrata shareholders.

"These are a strong set of results in our view driven by good progress at all of the exploration and development projects and a solid final quarter of the year during which cash costs per ounce declined by 8% to $525 an ounce. This was principally due to the impact of improvements to the underground Yalea mine at the company's 80% owned Loulo operation in Mali that accounted for 351,000 ounces of Randgold's production." said Investec analysts pushing the target price from 5162 to 5220p.

Elsewhere, Anglo American, Vedanta Resources and Rio Tinto also added.

However, the FTSE tumbled despite a mining performing with a gain of 0.58pct.

By 13:00 today, the FTSE was level with its opening at 5065 having rallied from a low of 5034.

Electricity emerged as a strong performer in the afternoon after reports that International Power may be subject to an increased bid by GDF Suez.

Talks between the companies on combining International Power with certain GDF Suez Power assets fell through last month.

However with talks apparently still in progress, International Power plc rose 5.8 pct to 332.1 by 10:30 am.

Overall Electricity was the FTSE biggest performer by sector with Scottish and Southern also gaining 19 pence (1.65 pct).

Meanwhile, the Dow was due to open up after Stock futures rose.

Dominos Pizza, who bucked the trend early last year by announcing a 25 pct increase in profits appears to be under some selling pressure despite Superbowl weekend being one of their biggest takings of the year.

According to Felicia Woods, General Manager of one of the US stores, Super Bowl Sunday sees the peak number of pizzas delivered throughout the year:

"We're swamped up in here," she said "We normally do a hungred a day, probably today we do like 300."

"Drivers are running out the doors and ovens are backed up. I'm gonna be tired that's all" said Woods to WLBT, part of the CNBC network.

The main driver of FTSE falls however were the banks which weakened on evaporating optimism that euro zone debt problems might be receding.

Barclays, HSBC, Standard Charted and RBS all fell 0.1-2.8 pct.

European finance ministers however, tried to reassure counterparts in the G7 that the eurozone crisis was under control.

They said they would make sure that Greece sticks with its budget cutting plans.