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Article: Binary bets.
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- Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content
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- September 3, 2007
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Simon Thompson voices concerns over low trading volumes and potential for further fall-out from the credit markets Simon Thompson
On the face of it, the corrective equity market rally last week was impressive. From its low points on Wednesday 29 August, the FTSE 100 managed to rally by around 4 per cent by close of trade on Friday, while the FTSE 250 rose by almost six per cent in this time. However, volume is the rocket fuel that markets need to confirm investor participation and worryingly, post the bank holiday weekend, trading volumes were pretty thin. They were half the monthly average and a third of the level seen on 17 August - the day when the market rose ...
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