24 FEBRUARY 1939, page 43

Finance And Investment

THESE are stirring times in the City when we are told two months in advance (without any leakage) at least the main outlines of the Budget, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer......

Lord Horne On Great Western Prospects

First among the railway chairmen to vouchsafe us his views, Lord Home opens up a moderately hopeful prospect for Great Western stockholders. Last year's sharp fall in net......

The Outlook For Gilt - Edged The Market's First Reactions...

the obvious ones— a fairly sharp rise in industrial ordinary shares, with tobacco and brewery shares well in the lead, and an uncertain ten- dency in gilt-edged and other......