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[Kirk]

State Street Investor Confidence Index to 84.5 in June

The graphs at the link say it all quite well..
http://www.suite101.com/discussion.cfm/investing/6028/1251-1260#message_10

but I'll repost the table below.

 
 Investor Confidence Index 
   Month        Index	 
 Jun 2004 	85.5 
 Jul 2004 	84.6 
 Aug 2004 	86.5 
 Sep 2004 	84.7 
 Oct 2004 	89.2 
 Nov 2004 	85.5 
 Dec 2004 	90.1 
 Jan 2005 	89.8 
 Feb 2005 	89.8 
 Mar 2005 	93.2 
 Apr 2005 	89.0 
 May 2005 	81.4 
 

The State Street Investor Confidence IndexSM measures the attitude of investors to risk. Developed by Harvard Professor Ken Froot and State Street Associates Director Paul O'Connell, the Index uses the principles of modern financial theory to model the underlying behavior of global investors. Unlike other survey-based confidence measures that focus on expectations for future prices and returns, the Index provides a quantitative measure of the actual and changing levels of risk contained in investment portfolios representing about 15% of the world's tradable assets.