4 AUGUST 1967, page 22

Market Notes

CUSTOS The Government broker having announced that he would buy the new steel stock at 991, that is, I below its issue price, a good turnover followed and it was thought that......

Steel And The Rate Of Interest Money

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT By issuing a short-dated bond—Treasury 6+ per cent 1971 at 991—to the expropriated holders of steel the Chancellor in the Stock Exchange view 'took the......

Housey-housey

CONSUMING INTEREST LESLIE ADRIAN It may not be bingo for the jerry-builders, but 1 August this year will be remembered as the day the gamblers in bricks and mortar were beaten......

Wedding Off

JOHN BULL An important unit in the textile industry has decided that links with Imperial Chemical In- dustries are more of a hindrance than a help. I refer to Viyella......