20 MAY 1938, page 42

Company Dividend Announcements Have To Be Quite...

days to excite much enthusiasm in Throgmorton Street, and even Burmah Oil's 5o per cent. scrip bonus has proved rather a damp squib. Burmah Oil was my choice a year ago in the......

Finance And Investment

RECESSION ? Yes, but major or minor ? This is the question to which the City is now searching for the answer. The April figures of steel production and oversea trade and the......

Platt Brothers Again

Having taken a firm line against the original reconstruction proposals put forward by Plan Brothers (Holdings), the textile machinery makers, I cannot resist the temptation to......

Venturers' Corner

To recommend an electrical engineering share at this stage of the trade cycle may seem to be inviting trouble, but I will take the risk and outline the merits, purely as a......

Right From The Start The Unit Trust Movement Has Demon-

strated a striking adaptability to investors' needs—and desires—and one cannot therefore be surprised that current conditions should bring forth a new trust catering for......