24 FEBRUARY 1939, page 44

Life Insurance Progress

The accounts of the leading life insurance companies, both mutual and proprietary, which are now being published, leave no doubt that 1938 was a year of rapid progress, even......

Financial Notes Courtaulds' Prospects Of Recovery

ON the face of it the preliminary statement of Courtaulds could hardly have been worse. A decline of over £2,000,000 in profits to an insignificant figure, a dividend reduced......

Venturers' Corner One Hesitates, In These Days, To...

and textile shares, but quotations are so low that I feel that a buyer is probably getting in on attractive terms. The case of Cook, Son and Co. (St. Paul's) preference shares......

Finance And Investmen T (continued From Page 327)...

With the announcement of the London and North- Eastern results the home railway story for 1938 is complete. I did not expect the L.N.E.R. to spring a surprise on the market, and......

* * * * Peter 1013inson Results

Another West End store company to come well out of the past year is Peter Robinson, of Oxford Street and Regent Street. That company's net earnings for the year ended January......

Good Stores Results

Further results have now been announced by leading depart- ment store companies showing surprisingly favourable earnings in spite of difficult trading conditions. John Barker......