The rally may well have been driven by a lifting of the intense economic gloom that enveloped the markets in the autumn of 2011 and a sense that the European authorities had removed the immediate threat of a banking collapse, while simultaneously halting the rapid rise in Italian and Spanish government-bond yields.
One of them is Martyn Hunter, a 21-year-old from Kirkcaldy in Fife, who believes the collapse of Realtime was more a sign of rapid change in the industry, rather than a symbol of its decline.
That came after the collapse of a bridge that was under construction as part of the city's mass-rapid transport system in September last year, killing one person.
That came after the collapse of a bridge that was under construction as part of the city's mass-rapid transport system in September last year, killing at least one person and injuring several.