10 AUGUST 1974, page 23

A Comparison Of Slumps

Nicholas Davenport Turnover on the Stock Exchange has fallen to such a pathetic shadow of its former body that I expected stockbrokers to cheer the Tony Benn announcement that......

Mining's Misery

A feature of share markets in the past year has been the remarkable weakness of the mining finance houses despite dramatic rises in commodity prices. London-based houses have......