19 NOVEMBER 1988, page 24

Old Lady Shows Her Medals

WHEN I came to the City you could keep out of the rain by taking a short cut through the Bank of England. Stride in through the double doors at Princes Street, over the mosaic......

Spanish Chestnut

A CITY friend has confided to me the secret of his successful investment policy. Never, he says, invest in a country which has previously been governed by Spain. This principle......

City And Suburban

The Prime Minister throws an egg at an over-regulated City... CHRISTOPHER FILDES I have discovered, late in the day, a newly reliable source. This is the City informant who told......

. . .with Nih Syndrome

HER concern has two causes — for the City as a cost-conscious exporter in a competitive world, and for the small inves- tors, in whose interest, or at any rate in whose name,......