6 JANUARY 1939, page 36

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS WITH only the slightest encouragement from events the City has contrived to enter 'a new year much more hopefully than seemed likely a fortnight ago. How much of this......

Banking Season Opens

First among the " Big Six " British banks to announce their profits and dividends, Barclays and Martins show a rather surprising divergence of experience. Barclays' profits, at......

Motor Share Prospects

It is a long time since I wrote hopefully of the prospects for motor shares and that was before political apprehensions had impaired the will and falling purchasing power the......

The January Magazines Gloomy Forebodings Rather Than New...

charac- terise the political articles this month. Captain Liddell Hart in the Contemporary is peculiarly depressing in his article on " The European Crisis and Britain's......