Market For The World
NOW the Exchange has to learn to live in a market economy. People in markets so often find this difficult. It cannot expect to dictate to its customers or to tell them which......
Beyond The Green Baize
ONCE upon a time, it was an institution run like a gentleman's club, with the com- mittee on one side of the green baize door and the staff and secretary on the other. Stocks in......
City And Suburban
It's open season to bid for the Stock Exchange as the bold Swedes unfiX iX CHRISTOPHER FILDES I may bid for the London Stock Exchange myself. It must now be open season, and the......
Virtue And Reward
VIRGIN may derive its name from some sentimental memory deep in Sir Richard Branson's past, but I have always supposed that his group was named after the group of Caribbean......
Comrade Governor
MY revelatory discovery that Che Guevara was Governor of the Central Bank of Cuba has been confirmed. 'I have long enjoyed the fact that Che was a fellow-member of the central......
Cloud-capped Towers
THE Irish Republican Army cleared the ground for the City's new tower by mistake. When it blew up the Baltic Exchange, the chairman of the Stock Exchange was asked whether the......
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