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Recruitment stocks surge on recovery hopes

September 2003

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It takes a brave man to be the first to call an industry wide recovery, but that's exactly what Philip Bennett, chairman of recruitment minnow, Quantica, 32p(market cap: £12.9m) did at his firm's interim results on 5 August.  Fortunately for his shareholders, his is not a lone voicewith recruitment bellwether, Michael Page, 152p(market cap: £553m) also beating expectations at its interim's as well as being "encouraged" by a better than expected second quarter to 30 June.  These encouraging signs are backed up by the  CIPS/Reuters Employment Index for July, which showed that the recruitment sub sectors of IT, accounting/finance, medical and cl ...

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