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Sectors on the move - June

June 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 28/4/03 and 23/5/03. For the second consecutive month we are delighted to report that the FTSE-100 has posted a new high (4,049) and higher low (3,880) before closing up 110 or 2.8% at 3,980. This means that the new bull market, which started on 12 March, is now well into its third month â€“ be thankful for small mercies! The FTSE-All Share gained even more ground, rising 4.7% to 1,932, while the number of rising sectors comprehensively outnumbered the fallers by 26 to 5 as investorstook advantage of the multitude of lowly rated stock ...

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