3 OCTOBER 1998, page 34

A Sellers' Market

I TAKE my hat off to the boys and girl (Carol Galley, no less) at Mercury Asset Management. They have outsmarted the great Goldman Sachs at the difficult art at selling out at......

City And Suburban

Sibley's Law shows where the money goes, but this time the banks choose a hedge CHRISTOPHER FILDES I know I should keep a straight face, but the spectacle of banks finding new......

Jubilation

GOOD NEWS for all those (or both those) who want to go by Tube from Canada Water to Canning Town: there is light at the end of the tunnel. London Under- ground has called in......

No Problems

SOMEONE in Goldman Sachs's back office is whistling to keep his partners' spir- its up. He is running a corporate ad which shows a stern and rockbound coast such as the Pilgrim......

Booted Out

I WONDER how many votes Helmut Kohl got in the Bundesbank's stony corridors. His country's central bank is or was its most respected institution and he has twice walked all over......