23 MAY 1987, page 33

Election Losers

THE form-book suggests that election markets should be treated with care. The City can guess wrong. It misguessed in 1970, and again in the first of the 1974 elections. More......

The Economy

Mr Leigh-Pemberton's embarrassment of riches JOCK BRUCE-GARDYNE I recall this incident because Governor Leigh-Pemberton's annual Mais Lecture to the London Business School the......

Rolls And Reams

THE London paper mountain is height- ened this week by hundreds of thousands of new share certificates, each representing a toe-hold on Rolls-Royce. Many will have been sold as......

City And Suburban

How to be taken for a ride in a taxi-driver's market CHRISTOPHER FILDES W e are in a taxi-driver's market. Shares have gone soaring upwards, like untethered balloons, with the......

Paper Chase

THE resurgence of the private investor could herald direct personal ownership of the nation's means of creating wealth, with all that could follow from that, economical- ly and......