Consumer discretionary shares closed higher, and financial shares, among the most heavily traded, also rose sharply.
Williams, Tyco International, WorldCom, Cendant and PNC Financial shares, among others, sank sharply.
Second, we need to allocate catch shares among fishermen, so everyone fishing knows what he can have, and no more.
The technical problem, as I understand it, involves a portfolio imbalance involving Vodafone shares among British fund managers.
Overall the FTSE 100 finished down 7.66 points at 6688.62, with mining shares among the leading fallers.
Leading shares moved higher again after reasonable eurozone and US data, with mining shares among the main risers.
Bank shares, among the worst hit on Thursday, rose after Moody's Investors Service announced credit downgrades for 15 of the world's largest banks.
He can vote all 5,000 for one candidate, or divide the shares among two or more candidates any way he wishes.
Now there is bounty to spare.Profits are being split in three, pretty much equal shares among Playtone, HBO and Gold Circle.
"I'm not surprised the S.E.C. is investigating," said Greg Phelps, who has 600,000 KeySpan shares among the $1.1 billion he manages in the John Hancock Patriot Funds.
"Revenues beat expectations and this is very encouraging," said John Jacobs, who owns 200,000 General Electric shares among the $150 million he helps manage for Jacobs & Company.
