18 APRIL 1969, page 32

Budget Bruises

PORTFOLIO JOHN BULL The Budget has left some bruises on my two portfolios. Every company in my list is affected by the two-and-a-half-point rise in cor- poration tax to 45 per......

Market Report

CUSTOS Much the most important Budget measure for stock markets is the exemption of gilt-edged securities from capital gains tax. The result is that the low coupon stocks, which......

Ffolkes's Tycoons-15

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Kindness For The Poor Mon Ey

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Someone remarked that it was after all a humane Budget. It was not a phrase that occurred to me but I suppose it could be argued that as Mr Jenkins had......