MARKETS Stock market trading by small investors has surged to levels last seen during the “dotcom” boom, with many thousands of people buying into the strong recovery in shares that on Friday sent the FTSE 100 to its highest this year.
Some of the country’s biggest brokers say a “tide” of individual investors – frustrated with the low interest rates on offer in cash savings accounts and wary of buying into property – have turned to equities in the hope of riding a six-month rally that has propelled the blue-chip index to levels almost 50 per cent above its March low.
