Further Fall

Sympathetic Hearing Nishtar SPECULATION about the future of forward trading in shares persists. The meeting that the stock exchange chiefs had with the Prime Minister on October 21 did not yield any definite results. The delegation received 'sympathetic hearing', ie, elementary courtesy. This was the least it could have expected and this was about all that it got. The stock exchange chiefs were told that the proposals submitted by them in their joint memorandum on 'Resumption of Normal Market Dealings' were being looked into by the department concerned and that necessary steps would be taken on the completion of the examination. This can mean anything, or perhaps nothing at all.