| 1 | The old Wall Street cliché that 'money chases performance' may need to be revised. | |
| 2 | We see some increases in blue chips with low valuation and high dividend yields. | |
| 3 | But the stock market took cheer from the economic data, with the FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 rising 1.7 percent. | |
| 4 | Consolidation hopes helped drive shares in the food and drink sector as a whole up 2.35 percent, outperforming a 1.3 percent rise for European blue-chips. | |
| 5 | Paintings have rarely looked more attractive as alternative assets, and Chinese contemporary art has been at the head of that class. |