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TMI Trader Portfolio - Feb '08

February 2008

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.

With the main indices down 5% on the month, again on fears that the credit crunch will severely crimp demand for consumer oriented stocks, the TMI Trader Portfolio managed to hold its own, falling just 0.3% to £320,526. It remains an impressive 220% ahead of its starting price back in 2002. There wasn’t too much to report on the debit side although the poor trading statement from consumer bell-weather Marks & Spencer was probably the main reason for Carphone Warehouse’s 11% fall. In terms of newsflow our constituents generally reported respectable updates with van rental firm Northgate noting no major signs of a downturn either in the UK or Spain, while Connaught and Hargreaves also reassured. Meanwhi ...

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