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Market Comment - August '09

August 2009

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.

A positive month indeed, although not for each of the trinity of troubles (house prices, unemployment, and debt). Newsflow has been very encouraging on US and UK house prices, as surveys suggested stabilisation. In the US prices rose (albeit slightly) for the first time in three years. Unemployment is still a dark spot, yet high unemployment itself does not preclude a recovery - in the second half of the 1980s a booming UK economy was not held back by 10% unemployment. There is still schizophrenia around debt. The UK Government worries because banks aren't piling more debt on businesses (let's not glorify it by giving it the soubriquet of “credit”) and the rest of us applaud because consumers and businesses are incre ...

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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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