There was a lot of weakness in some of the banks in particular, ... There was a bit of reaction by foreigners to the Nippon Credit Bank liquidation or whatever it was at the weekend.

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[Nortel's warning is] bad news for the (telecom) hardware sector and will hurt the likes of Ericsson and Nokia, ... valuations are close to the bottom for this year.

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Under a pound was an extreme level and my guess it that they'll continue to move up for the next month or so.

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The key is going to be the turn-around in industrial production. When we see that, that will give some possibility of upward revisions in earnings in the second half of the fiscal year. I think the market will become much more relaxed again about the economy.

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There are people out there arguing that Vodafone shares are worth 70p but that's certainly not our view.

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It's incredibly quiet at the moment, ... Foreigners are starting to go into Christmas mode and Europeans especially are winding down trading ahead of the introduction of the euro.

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Nokia had got very cheap at 14 euros. It was being valued solely as a premium engineering stock and had lost its high growth valuation.

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With interest rates on their way down (in the U.S. and the euro zone), large parts of the financial sector are a good bet.

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Even the Japanese are not that happy with the yen constantly weakening. Apart from anything else, it makes the management look rather silly if they've invested a great deal of time and money in overseas production. Suddenly, they don't need it two or three years later.

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