20 NOVEMBER 1964, page 28

Company Notes

By LOTHBURY A SUBSTANTIAL rise in dealing profits and addi- tional income received from two acquisitions made last year are mainly responsible for the big increase in pre-tax......

Consuming Interest

Desert Song By LESLIE ADRIAN But it is most encouraging to observe the way in which the gas industry, at one time apparently indissolubly tied to a clumsy, dirty and increas-......

Investment Notes

By CUSTOS T HE equity share markets are drifting down, as I anticipated, on the realisation that a cor- poration tax means 'double taxation' of dividends and a cut in dividends......