16 AUGUST 1968, page 24

Market Report .

CUSTOS The stock market has once again broken its record. All of the 6 per cent fall from the peak of 19 July—when the Financial Times index touched 492—has been recovered. On......

Lion Couchant

FILM FINANCE NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Those of us who would like the Government to practise more economy than it preaches will have observed with some satisfaction that it has not......

Black Power

PORTFOLIO JOHN BULL Well developed, highly sophisticated though the London market is, it offers few oppor- tunities for investment in public utilities—rail- ways, electricity......