12 NOVEMBER 1988, page 24

Fairer Shares

THE Budget for savings and ownership — it's four months ahead, but the headlines write themselves already' — must be the best chance yet for Esops. These fabulous entities are......

Cbi's Wrong Numbers

I DO wish that John Banham would disconnect the telephone answering machine at the Confederation of British Industry. He has been director-general there for a year and more,......

Cooke's Tour

PETER Cooke has retired early from the Bank of England, leaving a monument all around the world. His financial diplomacy brought the agreement which established common standards......

City And Suburban

Ups and downs of a stock which isn't for widows, orphans or pensioners CHRISTOPHER FILDES I knew Nigel Lawson was coming out fighting when he chose to confront Sir Robin Day in......

Paying The Baker

FROM the clam-infested shores of Bran- ford, Connecticut, I reported to you in July that the Treasury Secretary, James Baker, had turned on an election winning boom for his old......