Skinflint's City Diary
Sir Denys Lowson still has not paid back his ill-gotten gains from the sale of the National Group of Unit Trusts to the Triumph Investment Group. Sir Denys is a rich man, though......
September Crunch
Times are hard. There can surely be no mistake about that. The squeeze on borrowers has been concealed by the reluctance of the banks, whether they be clearing banks or what is......
Big Sellers
Last week a young broker with Hoare Govett was telling me that even such financial giants as Scottish Widows have been selling ICI and Distillers, yielding 8 per cent or so in......
I Was So Bullish When The Ft Index Had Fallen
to 250 that I should, if anyone had been mug enough to have given me the credit, geared up to, saY, three to one and bought across the board. This would have wiped out at least......