22 OCTOBER 1988, page 23

Agents And Patients

WHAT have our stock market's leaders invested in? Farms, says Margaret Reid farms from Gloucestershire to the Dor- dogne, and heated swimming pools all over Surrey. The proven......

Purple Sprouting Bank

BARCLAYS Bank has set up its Lombard Street head office with supersmart word processors which know how to spell. Dash away at the keyboard and the machine tidies up for you,......

. ..and How To Do It

HOW is he to do it? Not, obviously, by his new offering of a new National Savings gadget called the Capital Bond. That, if it works, will lure money not into investment but into......

City And Suburban

Why UK's finance director needs us to put up more capital... CHRISTOPHER FILDES W hat UK plc needs is a rights issue. Think of the country as a company, and you can see what has......