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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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Sectors on the move - February

February 2004

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  12/12/03 and 16/1/04. TheNew Year has started with a bang with all the indices breaking into new highs.  The FTSE-100 rose 3.6% to 4,488, after moving above 4,500 at one point, while the performances of the Techmark 100 and FTSE Small Cap were even more impressive, with gains of 9.6% to 1,109 and 5.5% to 2,581 respectively.  The feel-good factor certainly came out among the 30 FT sectors we cover, with 26 winners and only 4 losers recorded, a statistic reinforced by comments in the national press that "investors, who haven't bought a stoc ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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