19 AUGUST 1989, page 19

Tail-end Karl

WHAT makes a share look expensive? When you have to pay a lot of money in proportion to what your investment can earn. Now apply the same principle to investing in countries,......

City And Suburban

A market with two or three hundred points of fizz and bubbles CHRISTOPHER FILDES t is quite easy to produce a share certificate. You could do it yourself with a John Bull......

Print Your Own Stock

FOR the companies, it is an unpleasant sensation, even a shock. They have got used, in the 1980s, to making money their power to earn has recovered to levels not seen for a......

Banal, Grotesque

SID'S idiot nephew now in charge of the advertising account at British Gas has discovered that the letters B 0 stands for all sorts of other things. For example: `Banishing......