26 APRIL 1986, page 31

Nothing So Crude

THAT stylish stockbroker Donald Cobbett collected his occasional writings and pub- lished them under the title Nothing So Crude as a Tip. Nothing so crude in this column, either......

Long-term Risk

`POOR old Lloyd's,' said the underwriter, gesturing at the contraption of pipes and tubes which is the market's new home. `After 300 years. . . . We started off in a......

City And Suburban

Ticking towards Big Bang with whose hand on the detonator? CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t seems only yesterday, that summer day when Cecil Parkinson and Nicholas Goodison joined hands......