Richard Peterson, an analyst at Thomson, forecasts that 300 companies will go public this year.

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Richard Peterson: As we speak, investors are enduring a very challenging and perplexing environment.

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Things have gone quiet through the Autumn, at least in the press, but chatting this week to psychiatrist Richard Peterson at Marketpsychdata, a specialist in tracking market sentiment, I began to sense the problem worsening.

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