14 JANUARY 1938, page 32

Finance And Investment

WHEN markets can take news as dismaying as the December unemployment totals and President Roosevelt's fresh broad- sides into the " Big Business " entrenchments without turning......

Venturers' Corner

Having referred last summer to the preference shares of W. H. Dorman and Co., the Stafford firm of oil-engine makers, I think another glance at this company's position is......

Lancashire Cotton Results

Even on the most exacting standard I cannot award anything less than Alpha plus to the Lancashire Cotton Corporation report. The spectacular rise in income from £136,465 to......

Bank Profits Expand

As I suspected, the banks have had a satisfactory year. " Gross up " the published profits of the " Big Five " by adding back the provisions for income tax and N.D.C., and it......