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BUZZ-Michael Page: Special dividend boosts stock

** Staff recruitment firm's shares up 4.7 pct, second-largest FTSE midcap gainer, after announcing 50 mln stg special dividend

** Co will pay special dividend of 16 pence per share after H1 pretax profit rose 13.7 pct

** Best day for stock since January; also top gainer on Stoxx 600 Industrial Goods and Services Index

** 15 pct of its 30-day avg volume gone through in the first 40 mins of trade (venkateshasoumithri.mamidipudi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)