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Stock Picks for This Week: Oversold blue chip: Stock: Manila Electric Co. "B" (MERB).

BusinessWorld (Philippines)

| August 06, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Business World Publishing Corporation. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Optimism.

This is the only thing that drives the stock market.

Without it, the stock market would have gone into a free fall, just like the peso's behavior whenever the economy is in a slowdown or whenever there are no incentives left for investors to put their money in the Philippines.

The increase in the number of brokerage houses ceasing operations as a result of thin value trades in the market and the poor economic situation haunts the local market's performance.

This situation poses a threat to the local market which cannot stand alone without foreign investors coming in, as about 70% to 80% of …

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