With the encouragement of a US rally behind them investors finally decided to buy into stocks that h...
With the encouragement of a US rally behind them investors finally decided to buy into stocks that have tumbled in the past week. Selected telecom, computer-related and financial stocks received the lion's share of the buying. With trading in the US getting off to a decent start the FTSE 100 finished on a positive note and posted a decent rise of just over 100 points. Despite today's buying optimism there's a growing consensus amongst brokers that equity prices still have some way to fall before they'll move overweight in them. The FTSE 100 rallied 103.3 points to 5729.2 and the tec...
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