3 JUNE 1989, page 21

Not Amused

PUTTING the Union Discount Company of London into play? Whatever next? It is like making an indelicate advance to Queen Victoria. I was brooding here last week on the dangerous......

City And Suburban

The economic consequences of bringing the boys home CHRISTOPHER FILDES 0 ne of the hazards of my way of life is to be collared over a drink by an eminent banker, who asks me......

Nuts In May

SETSUBUN tenjo, higan zoko is the Japanese equivalent of, 'Sell in May and go away.' Call up your broker and impress him with this information, unless he is Alastair Ross Goobey......

Fluctuations

THE City and Suburban theory of market seasonality is based on the achievements of an elderly broker, in a modest way of business, who astonished his acquaintances by leaving a......