17 MARCH 1939, page 38

Financial Notes

STEEL INDUSTRY'S RECOVERY THERE can be no denying that the British steel industry i s now staging a most impressive recovery. Whether it be attributed to the reduction of prices......

Good Steel Results

The financial results of two of the leading steel groups in this country do not reflect the recovery in steel production shown in the January and February figures. But they show......

Textile Trade Revival

In the past two years the Lancashire cotton trade has had more than its normal quota of fluctuations. In the early months of 1937 demand was remarkably good, but there followed......

Prudential Investment Policy

Sir Edgar Home's review of the progress of the Prudent. Assurance Company last week contained two important !tent- of good news for shareholders. The company's motor insu- ance......

Scottish Equitable Position

Among those life-assurance institutions which have come through a difficult year with credit must also be counted the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society. Sir Harry Hope......