This work charts the course of the London Stock Market, from boom to bust over the last 50 years. Major events include: the Harrods takeover battle, Slater Walker, the Australian nickel boom, Bernie Cornfeld and the IOS, the Guinness Affair, Polly Peck and Robert Maxwell. It features all the major economic developments and corporate headlines of the period. There are now nearly ten million private investors in the UK, plus another 250,000 people professionally involved in the investment business. Few of them have any knowledge of market history, of past booms and busts, and their causes. This complete record of market behaviour compares bull- and bear-market behaviour over the past 50 years, their causes and effects. Considerable background information provides useful points for discussion when market professionals are talking to clients and vice versa.