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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (119185)3/3/2001 10:00:19 PM
From: H James Morris  Respond to of 164684
 
Well Victor, I've got my vices too, so don't feel alone.
>FTMarketWatch.com 5:33:00 PM GMT Mar 2, 2001

LONDON (FTMW) -- Europe's bourses wound down trading in the red on Friday after a week in which U.S. profit warnings and dashed hopes of interest rate cuts left investors The mood soured after U.S. software giant Oracle [US:ORCL] shocked investors after the U.S. close with preliminary results below expectations. Contributing to unease was the Tokyo Nikkei, closing at its lowest level since July 31, 1985.

In Europe, the world's largest business software maker, Germany's SAP [DE:716463] fell 9 percent in the wake of Oracle's bombshell. SAP is sticking by its profit forecasts despite Oracle's gloom. See more on SAP

Software group Business Objects [FR:012074] sank nearly 10 percent in SAP's wake while Autonomy [UK:AU.] tumbled nearly 12.2 percent after Robertson Stevens cut the closely watched data management software group's 2002 revenue forecasts by 13.2 percent.