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Sectors on the move - May

May 2003

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  24/3/03 and 25/4/03. Withthe Iraq war ending as quickly as investors dared hope the FTSE-100continued last month's progress.  Significantly, it posted both anew high of 3,966 and a higher low point (of 3,613), before closing up9 at 3,870 on the month, which suggests that a new bull market, albeitjust seven weeks old, remains intact.  The fact that only threeof the 32 FT sectors suffered losses was another encouraging sign. Thebiggest riser was steel (up 37.9%), which is dominated by the heavilyindebted, Corus, 12.7p (market cap: £ ...

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