Beyond the Footsie: Tues の近くに

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 27 June 2000

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UK Smaller Caps の近くにd at their lowest point of the day 落ちるing 支援する from an earlier high にもかかわらず a late flurry of company news, as 投資家s remained 用心深い of the 結果 of the FOMC 会合, which began this afternoon in the US.

The FTSE Small Caps 索引 の近くにd up 0.1 at 3368.0, its intra- day low, 井戸／弁護士席 below its high of 3371.7.

Of smaller cap 問題／発行するs, 所有物／資産／財産 Internet 前進するd up the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of risers, 伸び（る）ing 11- 1/2p to 71- 1/2p on the 支援する of an interactive television を取り引きする Telewest, which will give the latter's 数字表示式の television テレビ視聴者s 接近 to 所有物／資産／財産 website, 0800homes.com.

Late news that the company's chairman has 辞職するd with 即座の 影響 押し進めるd 株 in Seascope Shipping up 22- 1/2p to 187- 1/2p - as talk the company is a 企て，努力，提案 的 began to 現れる in reaction to the news - while Eurasia 採掘 was 3p firmer at 28- 1/2p, に引き続いて the 採掘 company's 告示 that it has begun the new 演習ing programme at its Baronskoye palladium and gold 地雷 in Russia.

Minorplanet 伸び（る）d 32- 1/2p to 562- 1/2p after the Times newspaper 最高潮の場面d talk of a possible 企て，努力，提案 for the group from Trafficmaster, while Vislink 会社／堅いd 4p at 67- 1/2p after 発表するing 計画（する）s for a £13.8m 取得／買収, part-基金d by a £4.5m placing.

Jazz FM continued to 強化する, 伸び（る）ing 9p at 91- 1/2p after the group 明かすd a second 数字表示式の multiplex 取引，協定 and Oxford Biomedica was 9p up at 69p, excited by the 打開 on the sequencing of the human genome 夜通し in the US.

On the downside, Dowding & Mills shed 4p at 33- 1/4p after the company said 十分な year results will be below 期待s, as it 発表するd the 合併するing of its 電気の and mechanical services 部隊s, 追加するing that a 減ずるd final （株主への）配当 will help to 基金 its 再編成. The electronic and 電気の 器具／備品 構成要素s company said that 不確定 surrounding the 未来 of Longbridge and Dagenham 刺激するd 特に difficult 貿易（する）ing 条件s during the first half.

一方／合間, Rodime 株 stayed 一時停止するd at 0- 1/2p after news regarding the finalisation of a 逆転する 引き継ぎ／買収 of the 会社／堅い, which will see Littlewoods Leisure acquired by the 会社／堅い, and entrepreneur Trevor Hemmings taking a 重要な 少数，小数派 火刑／賭ける in the group.