17 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 38

City And Suburban

Inflated anxieties or how to win bets on the Retail Prices Index CHRISTOPHER FILDES W orry of the week is inflation. Never mind, it will soon be the trade figures. This week has......

Enterprise Regained?

WOMEN, elephants and Sir Denis Rooke never forget an injury. British Gas's pachydermatous chairman was displeased when his North Sea assets were taken away to be privatised as......

Icily Regular

I FORECAST a stampede into the only safe job left in the City. Unease in the stock markets, where so few firms are busy enough to keep themselves warm, has given way to fright,......

A Use For Gec's Money

their meeting their only obvious point of agreement with the board was a common disappointment with the share price, which has been going nowhere for years. They would like to......