31 OCTOBER 1987, page 26

Bears Stop Play

GOODBYE and good riddance to some of that. Goodbye to the paper mills and printing presses churning out new share certificates, so that companies can issue them and exchange......

Offers We Can Refuse

GOODBYE, we may hope, to our clumsy and costly way of selling shares, and, to Sid, a sailor's farewell. The stuffers argue that to release BP's underwriters from their......

Roll On, Quiescence

CONFIDENCE, enthusiasm, panic, funk — that (I was saying) is the market cycle, with its worst moment when enthusiasm gives way to panic. Tim Congdon, the Sage of Shearsons,......

City And Suburban

Goodbye to all that, from a City of stuffers and pullers CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he City split this week into stuffers and pullers. The pullers, led by Michael Richardson of N. M.......

Everything Must Go

GOODBYE to much more. Goodbye, I suppose, to deregulation — the vogue word for removing the barriers from finan- cial markets, and opening them up to new participants, national......