11 AUGUST 1990, page 20

Yellowhammered

POOR little Yellowhammer lies on its back with its claws in the air. The cat got it, and now the receiver has it. To the City, it is the latest warning (Saatchi is the loudest)......

Eeyoreism And Brimstone

A WHIFF of brimstone hangs in the air over the world's markets. Their profession- als have to decide whether this is a turning point, when the markets' working assump- tions......

Tanks For The Memory

IT HAS happened before. Twenty-odd years ago I had to do with a weekly newsletter, sent out from the Middle East's happy and prosperous financial capital, Beirut. Week by week......

Absent Friend

THERE is someone missing from the committee now formed to represent the creditors of British & Commonwealth Merchant Bank. The big names are there. headed by the Midland, but no......

City And Suburban

Saddam Hussein gets out of debt by holding up the bank CHRISTOPHER FILDES I suppose that if I owed a fortune to the National Westminister, and could not pay it back, because I......