Small cap newsbeat

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 10 February 2000

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Internet news 支配するd small-cap 訴訟／進行s on Thursday with 株 in ソフトウェア specialist Staffware racing ahead after it 発表するd 計画（する）s for an online 商売／仕事-to-商売／仕事 分割. The AIM-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d 在庫／株 jumped to £34.50 続けざまに猛撃するs by late afternoon, up £14.62 or 74% but off an earlier 史上最高 at £37.50, after the company 明らかにする／漏らすd 計画（する）s to 投資する £20 million to create an eProcess 分割. EProcess will spearhead enlargement of Staffware's market for workflow ソフトウェア によれば the company, which also 明らかにする／漏らすd 1999 group sales in line with 期待s at about £25 million 続けざまに猛撃するs..

International metals 仲買人 MG 殺到するd 66.8% after 説 it had 設立するd a 共同の 投機・賭ける to develop an Internet marketplace for 貿易（する）ing 非，不，無-ferrous metals. 株 in MG - which have 示すd time since the company floated at 205 pence in September -- 殺到するd 131- 1/2p to 328- 1/2p by 1435.

Web news also 上げるd ソフトウェア developer SDL which was up 16.9% after 発表するing 契約s for its SDLWebFlow 製品 with Microsoft and two other 会社／堅いs. The 株 - which made theirs market debut last December after an 初期の 申し込む／申し出ing at 134 pence - were up 68- 1/2 pence at 475p. SDL said Microsoft would use the 製品 -- which helps in the language translation of web content - on a 操縦する 計画／陰謀 with the Danish, Brazilian and Portuguese 見解／翻訳／版s of the Microsoft Windows 2000 website..

にもかかわらず big 伸び（る）s in a handful of companies, the FTSE Small Cap 索引 軟化するd to be 貿易（する）ing 18.5 points or 0.6% 負かす／撃墜する at 3,139 points by 1522.

株 in bathroom and kitchen fittings 会社／堅い Bridgend Group dropped 25% or 2- 1/4 pence to 6- 1/2p まっただ中に 利益（をあげる）-taking after its 殺到する to 9- 1/2p, 売買業者s said. These 株 had earlier been 上げるd by a tip from the 議論の的になる group at the Daily Mirror.