17 FEBRUARY 1939, page 36

Finance And Investment

ONCE again it is stalemate in the stock markets. Thanks to " bear covering " and a modest volume of investment sup- port, prices have recovered pretty sharply from the January......

Prospects For Gilt-edged

If one is to believe certain whisperings, one or two of the investment trusts have lately seen fit to sell a portion of their fixed-interest holdings and put the money into......

Great Western Record Broken

Alas! Paddington has not kept up the running set by Waterloo and Euston. Frankly, I did not expect that it would, for it was surely optimistic to suppose that any- thing but a......