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Are traders seeing the start of a genuine stock market recovery? BBC News Online lets the graphs tell the story.

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London's FTSE jumped 11.6% in the last 3 months, its best performance in more than 3 years.

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But the rebound looks a lot less impressive against the background of three gloomy years.

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Even Japan, whose economy has struggled far more than the UK, has enjoyed a stock market bounce.

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But Japan's Nikkei index is still less than half the value of its worth ten years ago.

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Germany's Dax index has enjoyed the strongest percentage gains of all the world's major indexes - a massive 33%.

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But it is also one of the most extreme examples of traders having suffered from plunging investments.

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The US blue-chip index has been the trend setter for global share prices, but its recent winning streak seems to be over.

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And the pattern over the past three years - and where it goes from here - is still far from clear.