26 May 2021 | 16:32pm StockMarketWire.com - The FTSE 100 was going nowhere fast on Wednesday, finishing broadly flat but and still comfortably above the 7,000 mark. In the US the S&P 500 was up modestly, gaining 0.2% to 4,195.26 by 4.30pm UK time. Private hospital group Spire Healthcare surged 26% to 243.5p on announcing that it had agreed to be acquired by Australia's Ramsay Health Care for £999.6 million. Spire shareholders would receive 240p per share, a 24% premium to the company's latest closing price before the deal was announced. Inhaled-treatment focused Vectura rallied 31% to 160.01p after it agreed to be acquired by by US investment firm Carlyle Group for about £958 million.