26 JULY 1986, page 25

City And Suburban

Promises, promises: or, the importance of being honest CHRI S T 0 PHER FILDES f Ernest Saunders is worth his weight in gold, he will come out on the bullion scales at about......

Maxwell's House

ROBERT Maxwell buys shares in the way other people take pot shots at clay pigeons: whirr, bang, tinkle. He will have enjoyed the marksmanship that brought down five per cent of......

Lex Per Incunam

LATEST excuse for the stock market shake-out (as if it needed excusing) is dissent between the Government and the Sovereign — the first time this has knocked shares, says a......

Lord Of High Ground

I CANNOT see why Ralph Harris should want a break, just because he has been toiling away in his shirt-sleeves and plum- coloured waistcoat for 30 years, changing the way we all......