25 FEBRUARY 1966, page 22

Investment Notes

By CUSTOS T HE rise in equity shares has been halted as I write and the trend is downward. I have lately been stressing the fact that the rise has been due in part to unwilling......

Road Transport Shares

When the Labour government came into office investors were nervous of road transport shares in view of the threat of nationalisation, and the leader of this grOUp-TRANSPORT......

Chemical Shares

The less buoyant tone of the market was set by ICI, whose disappointing report discomfited the bulls. Pre-tax profits were down by 10 per cent and earnings amounted to only 16......

Identified With Dj—the Dow Jones Index Of In-

ECONOIN MIE The Threat to Wall Street By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT E VERYTHING about America is fabulous. I say this with absolute sincerity after looking again at a few statistics of......

Company Notes

By LOTHBURY T HE first report - by Mr. D. W. G. L. Haveland, the new chairman of Staveley Industries, is a satisfactory one for the year ended Septem- ber 30, 1965: Pre-tax......