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In a recent survey of 127 institutional investors, TheMarkets.com found that nearly 40% of those surveyed think that the market has already rebounded, hitting its bottom earlier this year.

There have been only seven IPOs in Japan during the first five months of 2009. The seven offerings procured a total of 8 billion yen. But only 2.6 billion yen, or 32%, came from stock sold to the public.

The average daily value traded on the equity order books of London Stock Exchange Group during May was £8.2 billion (€9.2 billion). This was an increase of nine per cent on the average daily value traded during April this year, though down by 36 per cent compared with the same month last year. The average daily number of trades was 1.0 million, an increase of 14 per cent year on year, though down by two per cent compared with April.