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Comments from Ben Bernanke regarding concerns about the US economy on the growth side and inflation side have had a negative effect on the markets.

As I am sure most of you know sharemarkets are divided into sectors. For example Financials excluding property is about 40% of the Sharemarket, Materials is about 20%, and Industrials are about 8%.

Volume is one of the simplest and most undervalued indicators around. Like indicators in general, volume alone does not give the whole picture.

It was the 20th Anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash last month, and the last two to three weeks have been quite fretish.

The major news out of the US was the Federal Reserve’s quarter-percent interest rate cut Wednesday. It was widely expected, and the market rallied on the news.