17 MARCH 1967, page 22

Custos

Market notes The long three-week account on the Stock Exchange opened firmly and was helped by the favourable trade returns, the 'gap' being cut in February to £3 million. It......

Penny Plain

CONSUMING INTEREST LESLIE ADRIAN The decibels of the decimal dialogue have crashed over my tolerance threshold. What with the Government pounding away, the Con- federation of......

Built-up Sector

JOHN BULL Some of the more spectacular casualties of the setback in the economy have been the big con- struction groups. John Laing has stopped mak- ing profits for the time......