YEAR 2002 was clearly one of many misses for the local stock market. For the most part of the year, escalating tension in the Middle East, the threat of a double-dip recession in the US and a softening global economy was like a thorn in the side of most stock markets around the world, including Malaysia.
And these concerns continue to figure uppermost in most pundits' list on how the stock market is expected to fare in 2003.
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