2 NOVEMBER 1985, page 24

Clearing The Jungle

MARKETS need ways to contain the consequences of failure, and to try to prevent the bad from bringing down the good. The simplest answer is the Stock Exchange's. Its......

Delusive Mine

FOR your Christmas book list, coming shortly, never a dull page: the report and accounts of Johnson Matthey Bankers. Says one of the authors: 'It'll take a bit of writing.' A......

Chips Are Off

NEWS from the land of the rising mic- rochip: the Japanese have opened their own financial futures market, did $7,0 00 million of business in the first two hours, and settled......

City And Suburban

A nasty case of metal fatigue, and it looks infectious CHRISTOPHER FILDES D ogs and devils! What d'you think? The bottom's fallen out of zinc! Zinc is crumbling, zinc is......