Market 報告（する）／憶測: Thursday の近くに

By Mickey Clark for MailOnline
Updated: 00:00 BST, 19 February 2004

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BULLISH 貿易（する）ing news from a clutch of blue-半導体素子s saw 株 prices in London 急に上がる to their highest for a month.

But most of the companies 報告（する）／憶測ing were moved to whinge about the 影響 of a 落ちるing US dollar. Building 製品s 供給者 Hanson, up 8 1/4p at 451 1/2p, says every one-cent 落ちる in the value of the dollar wipes £1m off its 利益（をあげる）s.

Drinks 巨大（な） Diageo, 負かす／撃墜する 3p to 707p, is also 攻撃を受けやすい along with publisher Reed Elsevier, which led the FTSE-100 leaderboard with a rise of 37 1/4p to 487 1/4p.

仲買人s were celebrating their 各々の 業績／成果s today but 警告する they may be 軍隊d to downgrade 利益（をあげる） 予測（する）s for the big dollar earners when the first ４半期/4分の1 の近くにs at the end of March.

If 投資家s were worried about the prospect of such downgrades they were not showing it. The FTSE-100 索引 rose 72.7 points to 4515.6 supported by 開始 伸び（る）s for the Dow in New York this afternoon.

採掘 巨大（な） BHP Billiton, up 28p to 507 1/2p, is one of the few international companies that 利益s from 通貨 movements, with the price of raw 構成要素s 定価つきの in dollars, その為に 供給するing the 適切な時期 for 顧客s to 在庫／株 up cheaply. Its results （機の）カム in above 期待s.

仲買人 Credit Suisse First Boston has an outperform 率ing on the 株 and Deutsche Bank says they are a buy.

The City gave the thumbs-up to 記録，記録的な／記録する 利益（をあげる）s from 王室の Bank of Scotland, up 95p at 1730p. 基準 借り切る／憲章d, which 報告（する）／憶測d yesterday, 退却／保養地d 1 1/2p to 926p. US 安全s house Lehman Brothers has repeated its underweight 率ing and lowered its 的 from 894p to 885p. US 投資 bank JP Morgan remains overweight and has raised its 的 from 1000p to 1050p.

The City's second-biggest oil and gas 独立した・無所属, 首相 Oil, 決起大会／結集させるd 10 1/2p to 496 1/2p from last week's Merrill Lynch downgrade. Fresh 憶測 焦点（を合わせる）s on a 企て，努力，提案 for the group's West African 利益／興味s.

The talk has been fuelled by BG Group's move to spend $132m ( £ 70m) on Hardman 資源s' 株 in two 封鎖するs off the Mauritanian coast in which 首相 also 持つ／拘留するs a 火刑／賭ける. Hedge 基金 Landsdowne Partners yesterday 増加するd its 持つ／拘留するing in 首相-by 100,000 株 to 4.1m- - a 5% 火刑／賭ける. A IM-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d Hardman rose 3 1/4p to 58p.

Cairn Energy 追加するd another 5p to 685p に引き続いて 最近の news of a 抱擁する oil find in India. It has now come up from 380p since last month. Deutsche Bank has 増加するd its 持つ／拘留するing to 23.89m 株, or almost 16%.

A bullish 貿易（する）ing 声明 from 協議するing engineer WS Atkins 解除するd it 9 3/4p to a two-year high 581p. The group - a member of the Metronet Tube 国際借款団／連合 - has 確認するd the City 見解（をとる） that 利益（をあげる）s for the 現在の year will be ahead of 期待s.

激しい turnover has been 公式文書，認めるd in online training specialist Epic Group, 不変の on 99p, まっただ中に talk of a 企て，努力，提案. The cash-rich group 作品 for the Inland 歳入 and Customs & Excise and is valued at almost £26m. It 誇るs cash of £12m. The 株 低迷d in October after a 警告 that a 政府 契約 had been deferred.

負債-laden 物陰／風下d 部隊d fell 0.38p to 2.87p. Greek shipping 大君 Andreas Dracopoulos has sold 3m 株, bringing the number of 株 he has sold in the 首相の職 味方する during past few days to 9.5m.