Stock Market Aflame

Stock Market Aflame Nishtar THE stock market is aflame. Its pre- budget optimism has been fully vindicated. Equities which had already registered impressive gains in the fortnight preceding the budget have soared. Last weeks rise is perhaps the sharpest move for any single week for a few years. Post-budget happenings lend colour to the suspicion widely entertained in market circles that the sustained influential buying which preceded the budget had been of an informed character.