25 APRIL 1992, page 24

City And Suburban

There's a black diamond in British Coal and I shall dig for it CHRISTOPHER FILDES M y merchant bankers will be busy this summer. After my bid for Lloyd's of Lon- don — whose......

On The Gould Standard

IT SEEMS longer. Was it only a fortnight ago that the election was fought out (or so I was saying) by three men in the same boat without a paddle between them? A Chan- cellor......

Holiday Task

ANOTHER four-day week — we have four of them in a month and a half. Soon we can take a day off to mark Edward Heath's sec- ularisation of Whit Monday, and another for Michael......

Gamma Query Plus

THE TREASURY and the Bank of Eng- land are the best of enemies, so both will enjoy Andrei Nechayev, Russia's economic minister, speaking out this week in support of his......

A Handbag?

SEASONS return, in Washington the cher- ry blossoms are out, and flapping down into Dulles Airport come the finance ministers on their spring migration. I foresee another......

Invisible Exporters

TWO INSURANCE brokers, one firm of lawyers, and my friends at Euromoney Pub- lications, suppliers of glossy supplements to the world: these are the City's winners of the Queen's......