Exclusive: Durlacher dumps quarterly investment report

NEWS The Durlacher report, by European internet analyst Sarah Skinner, was once one of the most highly-respected indicators of the health of the new economy in the UK, and its demise is another sign that the happy days of the dot-com boom are well and truly over. Internet consultancy and investment house Durlacher has been producing the report every quarter since April 1997. A Durlacher spokeswoman indicated that the maturing UK market made it harder to produce a report that didn't deal with areas covered by rival research houses. The group hopes to produce a similar publication dealing with the German and/or Spanish markets. Durlacher has itself been a high-profile casualty of the dot-com meltdown, seeing its share price fall from 450p to around 20p since March 2000.