This, to judge by the available evidence, is still probable – but the margin for error at the current market levels diminishes daily.No wonder Wall Street analysts are so frantically poring over the latest earnings figures for clues about the trend in profits growth.Small wonder, too, that it should be earnings figures from a technology [...]

Frrst it was Christmas, Easter and New Year that extended from a single day to an entire week. Then came weeks for national charities for cancer relief and blood donors. Now secular themes are seizing weeks of the year to publicise their causes, and next Monday begins National Will Week. Making a will ranks somewhere [...]

She has no plans to return to her previous job as office manager in a national newspaper. But she has decided that running a shop takes more than she is able to give: now she has two young children, she wants her Christmases and evenings back.”Seventy-five per cent of the reason I’m selling is that [...]

Among other traditional Tory donors, broker Smith New Court is reviewing its pounds 10,000 donation, while Rolls-Royce and Trafalgar House say they have yet to take a stance for 1995.Both Lucas and Inchcape made their decision before last week’s Tory party conference, but like much of British business they are concerned at the party’s increasing [...]