And while pre-marketing may not render much by way of price discovery, investors appear to welcome an early lookat would-be public companies and companies can gain perspectives on how their offerings may be received in terms of central themes and key metrics.
Still, despite not knowing much, we wanted to give you a lookat this device anyway because we thought it would be a good opportunity to give you some early impressions of the performance.
The chancellor has asked HM Revenue and Customs tolookat how much has been raised by the 50p rate, but it will notbe able to count this until this year's self-assessment tax returns are in after January next year.