14 JULY 1984, page 20

Trumpets Ppp

C ome bulls, come bears to the Stock Exchange, which on Thursday next at five o'clock throws open its doors and in- vites the world to enter. We are welcomed onto the trading......

The Phantom Coalman

T o watch Ian MacGregor in action is rather like watching a glacier go by. It sets the mind wandering into fantasy: sup- pose, for argument's sake, that we had to invent a......

City And

Chatty Old Lady rr he sterling markets — money, Govern- ment ment stock, the pound itself wandered Wordsworthianly about last month, like a cloud looking for a moun- tain.......

Model Relative

R elative performance is one of the City's happier notions. It means 'Never mind about your shares, look what has hap- pened to other people's'. Does the salesman from Greater......