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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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Sectors on the move - July

July 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.

This section should be viewed as raw material for investment ideas,rather than  recommendations.  Comparisons in sectors are based on the period between  23/05/02 and 20/06/02.  Last month, the FTSE-All Share index fell 10.8% to 2,236. Thiswas the biggest drop since the aftermath of 11 September and the indexis now closing in on the previous low, posted on 21 September, of2,128.  What particularly surprised us was the widespread severityof the recent sell-off.  Of the 32 individual FT sectors, 14suffered double digit falls and there were only two risers: Water(+0.9%) and Tobacco (+0.8%). Last month’s biggest loser, InformationTechnology Hardware, is now down 58% since the start of 2002. Even th ...

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