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IT Staffing Stocks showing first signs of recovery

December 2002

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Buried away in the FT support services sector, IT recruitment shareshad previously suffered falls of  80-90% from their peak until arecent mini rally.  With the latest industry surveys still showingno evidence of recovery, most investors are inclined to stayaway.  Yet this is precisely the time that experienced fundmanagers start accumulating shares in the leaders, in the expectationof better times around the corner.  They know that stock isdifficult to get hold of at these depressed prices and appreciate thehigh level of gearing at staffing companies, many of whom haveintroduced massive cost reduction programs, resulting in a reduction ofemployee numbers of between 20% and 40%.  The added "kicker" forthose recru ...

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