Market 報告（する）／憶測: Tuesday の近くに

By Mickey Clark for MailOnline
Updated: 00:00 BST, 26 March 2002

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MUSIC 巨大（な） EMI sang a 甘い song to 投資家s with the 約束 of better times ahead. The 株 price 延長するd its 最近の 復活 with a rise of 3 1/2p to 361p, having 簡潔に touched 378p, on the news that the group had re-調印するd singer Robbie Williams while planning to 生き返らせる classics such as the Beatles.

Word is, his 契約 will be 価値（がある） £40m over several years. It is hoped the move will 上げる 病んでいる sales of CDs, 記録，記録的な／記録するs and cassettes in a ひどく 競争の激しい market. EMI 株主s could do with some good news.

Last week, the music 分割's new 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Alain 徴収する 輪郭（を描く）d 詳細（に述べる）s of his 戦略の review, which 含むd major cost-cutting and big 令状-offs 最高潮に達するing in the loss of 1,800 職業s. It followed the debacle over the 契約 of pop diva Mariah Carey, whom EMI 捨てるd after her 最新の album flopped.

It cost an 概算の £38m to end her 契約 and saw 長，率いるs roll in the boardroom. The group must be hoping it will enjoy better success with Williams.

The 残り／休憩（する） of the market 延長するd Monday's 落ちる, but 狭くするd its loss when New York opened to buying. In thin 貿易（する）ing the FTSE 100 ended off 8.1 at 5195.5.

買い手s （機の）カム in for the water companies, attracted by their strong 産する／生じるs. Severn Trent led the way with a jump of 20 1/2p to 732 1/2p, followed by AWG, 10p better at 523 1/2p. 爆撃する was 不変の at 506p, にもかかわらず a muted 返答 to its £1.26bn 取得／買収 of the Pennzoil-Quaker 明言する／公表する oil company. Rolls-Royce wants to 捨てる the 限界 of 49.5% on foreign shareholdings in the company. The 株 答える／応じるd with 9p rise to 188p.

耐える の近くにing in the wake of Monday's 34% 落ちる in troubled telecoms 器具／備品 供給者 Marconi 解除するd the price 1.10p to 7.35p. Once again it was one of the heaviest 貿易（する）d 在庫／株s with nearly 195m 株 changing 手渡すs.

The US Food & 麻薬 行政 has given British Biotech the go-ahead to 実験（する） its 血 clot-破産した／（警察が）手入れするing スパイ／執行官 BB-10153 for use with heart attack 患者s. The 段階 2 裁判，公判s will be carried out by the US-based Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 熟考する／考慮する Group at two hospitals. The 株 常習的な 1/4p to 11 3/4p.

Diagnostics specialist Amersham 会社／堅いd 2p to 734p にもかかわらず US 安全s house Morgan Stanley 再開するing ニュース報道 with an 'overweight' 率ing and an 800p 的 price. It says the 取得／買収 of the 優れた 火刑／賭ける in Amersham Biosciences will make the 見通し for the 商売／仕事 a lot clearer.

MacLellan Group rose 2p to a new high of 93 1/2p. The building support services group 報告（する）／憶測d pre-税金 利益（をあげる）s up from £1.8m to £2.7m. The order 調書をとる／予約する stands at 記録，記録的な／記録する levels.

English & Scottish 会社／堅いd 1 1/2p to 180p after a line of 93.61m 株 went through the market at 188p. 革新 Group fell 71 1/2p to 167 1/2p on turnover of more than a million 株 まっただ中に （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that the computer ソフトウェア specialist is 始める，決める to change to 用心深い US accounting 政策s which may 影響する／感情 利益（をあげる）s. On Monday the group said it was 調査／捜査するing a US 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing and was 確信して of 会合 City 期待s.

Celtic 資源s shaded 1p to 12 3/4p after 発表するing 計画（する）s to raise almost £4m by placing 26.6m new 株 at 13 1/2p.

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