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MoneyTree Survey Quarter 1 2003

US private equity investment continued to plummet in the first quarter of 2003 according to PricewaterhouseCooper's MoneyTree Survey. Total investments were down from $4.3bn in the fourth quarter of 2002 to $3.8bn so far this year.

The number of companies receiving private equity funding was the lowest it has been in six years and few sectors were able to avoid this pervasive sense of gloom.

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