22 DECEMBER 1939, page 28

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IF the stock markets lack anything worthy of the name of general trend they at least contrive to tick over on highly selective lines. In war conditions, which make......

Base Metal Price Policy

The market's sudden enthusiasm for copper, lead and zinc shares I find more difficult to understand. In raising the maximum prices of these non-ferrous metals to virtually the......

Lancashire Cotton Recovery

For tangible proof of the cotton trade recovery one need not look further than the results of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation. Profits, at £582,807, have risen by £278,382, so......

Report On Competition No. 13

THE customary prizes were offered for nicknames coined from an abstract quality (on the model of " Capability " Brown) to fit any five of the twelve gentlemen whose names recur......