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Price
The
price taken is the mid-market close on the latest possible
day
before going to press.
When a rights issue is in progress, the shares are suspended
or a
company has made or received a takeover bid, the letters
R, S or
T will appear to the right of the price. The date and
nature of the
event are also shown in the ACTIVITIES/OUTLOOK panel
under the graph.
The symbol NMS within the brackets means normal market
size.
It gives an idea of the share's liquidity by showing
the average trading quantity for the stock.
NMS bands are in thousands with a lowest level of 500
and a highest of 200,000. REFSshows these two levels
as .5 and 200 respectively and always takes off the
last three noughts. For example, 'NMS 5' indicates an
average market trade of between 3751 and 6667 shares.
The complete table of NMS Band levels is as follows:
The
share equivalent column indicates the range represented
column shows the number of stocks in each band.
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REFS is
a mine of invaluable information for the private investor.
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