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Woman: Hello. I'm Jane Bowen with our regular Friday look at the week just finished on the London stock market.
你好，我是簡·鮑文，現在為您帶來我們每周的周五新聞，倫敦股市剛剛收盤，
The general picture is pretty mixed. Shares in the major banks are trading down, while mining companies have surprised analysts with a small rise.
本周總體情況相當復雜。各大銀行的股票正在下降，而礦業公司則使分析師們感到驚訝，實現了小幅上漲。
Overall, it's been a week of considerable movement, with the highest level reached at the close two days ago and a sharp fall yesterday.
總體來說，本周是相當活躍的一周，兩天前收盤時達到最高水平，昨天又大幅下降。
A strong recovery saw most of those losses being made up today, but the closing figure still fell short of Wednesday's.
今天股市強勁的復蘇使大部分損失得到彌補，但是收盤時的數據仍低于周三的水平。
Now here's Charles Wrighton with some company news.
下面由查爾斯·賴頓為您帶來的企業新聞。
Man: Thanks Jane. And first, clothing retailer, Brownlow.
謝謝簡。首先為您帶來服裝零售商布朗諾的消息，
Having finally found a buyer for their loss-making sports footwear subsidiary, Hi-form,
在終于為虧損的運動鞋子公司Hi-form找到了買家后，
they've rejected a take-over bid from a leading French retail chain which has been looking to buy into the British market for some time.
他們拒絕了法國一家主要零售連鎖店的收購要約，后者一直在尋求進入英國市場。
This activity has moved Brownlow's shares up by twenty percent to ninety-six pence.
這一舉動使布朗諾的股價上漲了20%，達到96便士。
There's a lot of interest in the Lek energy group, which recently bought Wesrwales Electricity.
現在很多人對LeK能源公司感興趣，該公司最近收購了Wesrwales電力公司。
To the relief of Wesrwales managers, Lek haven't brought in their own people to run the company.
讓Wesrwales公司的經理們松了一口氣的是，LeK能源公司并沒有讓他們自己的人來經營這家公司。
Despite predicted job cuts of something like a third of the engineering staff, no announcement has been made,
盡管預計會有大約三分之一的工程人員被裁掉，但現在這一消息還未宣布，
and indeed, Lek's comprehensive training scheme has been opened to all grades of staff in Wesrwales. Back to you, Jane.
而事實上，LeK能源公司的綜合培訓計劃已向Wesrwales各級職員開放。時間交給你，簡。
