Beyond the Footsie: Thursday の近くに

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 25 April 2002

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A FALLEN 巨大（な） 重さを計るd ひどく on 感情 の中で the smaller companies today. Baltimore 科学（工学）技術s, the former FTSE 100 group, which was once valued at £7bn, wobbled as 関心s over its 未来 固執するd.

It said it will decide in three to six months whet her to put the company up for sale or to continue as an 独立した・無所属 （独立の）存在. Its 株 fell 1p to 8p.

At the の近くに, the FTSE Small Cap 索引 was 10.5 points 女性 at 2,592.1.

株 in Medi@投資する, which barely 率s as a penny 株 these days, 宙返り／暴落するd 0.21p, or 30%, to 0.51p on yesterday's news it is （負債など）支払うing its 創造s games 操作／手術 and touting itself around as a 逆転する 引き継ぎ／買収 候補者.

財政上の 反対するs, 負かす／撃墜する 20 1/2p at 60 1/2p was on the sick 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） after it 警告するd that it would make a first-half loss. Not even the 約束 of a return of cash to 株主s was enough to sweeten the pill.

Another 死傷者 was Kleeneze, 負かす／撃墜する 31 1/2p at 123 1/2p, as its 約束 of 利益（をあげる）s of £8.5m for the 財政上の year just gone 証明するd something of a 失望. Last year it 地位，任命するd a 税込みの 利益（をあげる） of £10.8m.

Small cap 勝利者s 含むd ID Data, up 1 1/2p at 6 1/2p, which had good news on second-half sales. The group said it has been making 重要な 進歩 with 付加 orders, 含むing the company's first order for multi-使用／適用 smart cards with an 初期の order value of £2m.

CybIT rose 1/4p to 1 1/2p after 発表するing the 300th 委任統治（領） for its (n)艦隊／(a)素早い 管理／経営 and open 壇・綱領・公約 telematics service from Strongserve, a Stoke-on-Trent-based 輸送（する） and 兵たん業務 company.