Share price volatility not as crazy as it looks

08 May 2009

It is amazing how quickly investors can switch from seeing the glass as half empty to seeing it as half full.

What looked like the rubbish end of the stock market has exploded in 2009.

We have seen shares like Pendragon, the seemingly totally bombed-out motor dealer, trading at 22.25p against a year’s low of 1.4p.

Similarly, shares in regional newspaper group Johnston Press are changing hands at 36p, up from 4.8p less than two month’s ago.

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