This has resulted in several of the unlisted equity stakes being valued at a big discount to the quoted investments.

Savings Income - Income from qualified investments, such as interest from bank and building society deposits and income from quoted investments, is tax-free.

Prices of most widely quoted securities rose by about 1/8 point.

Market participants said prices of the most widely quoted securities were little changed in thin, boring trading.

Prices of most widely quoted securities were unchanged on the day, municipal bond traders said.

Traders said that prices of most widely quoted securities improved by 3/8 point in fairly active trading.

Israeli newspapers have quoted security officials as saying 30,000 Palestinians from Gaza may be denied the new cards.

The radio quoted security sources as saying the attack was carried out by Maoist rebels, but no group has yet taken responsibility for the attack.

Participants in the secondary market for tax-exempt municipal bonds reported that widely quoted securities rose by similar amounts.

Participants in the tax-exempt municipal bond market said that prices of most widely quoted securities inched up by about 1/8 point.

Traders said that despite the new issues, prices of most widely quoted securities in the secondary market for municipal bonds were little changed on the day.

In the secondary market for tax-exempt issues, traders said prices of most widely quoted securities were unchanged to up 1/8 of a point.

A capsule containing highly radioactive cesium 137 was stolen from a factory in Ukraine, Interfax quoted security officials as saying Thursday.

Private radio stations here today quoted security sources as saying that Amal militiamen have captured three gunmen who took part in kidnapping Colonel Higgins.

The Israeli radio quoted security officials as saying that the car was packed with explosives, and that the men inside were on their way to carry out a terror attack.

Hamas's radio station, Voice of al-Aqsa, quoted security sources, alleging that they "possessed hi-tech equipment and filming equipment to take footage of positions".

It quoted security officials as saying the attack in Jibla was most likely carried out by Islamic militants resentful of the fact that the missionary workers were preaching Christianity.

The story quoted security experts who said the Athens airport was notoriously insecure, suggesting, without saying so, that a bomb could have been smuggled on board the T.W.A. 747 there.

The slide in Treasury prices also hurt prices of outstanding municipal bonds, with prices of most widely quoted securities off by 1/4 of a point to 3/8 of a point.

RIT Capital Partners plc, Rothschild Investment Trust, is a large British investment trust dedicated to investments in quoted securities and quoted special situations.

With most bonds unchanged, Bloomberg Business News reported that the 5 percent California revenue anticipation notes due in 1995 were among the actively quoted securities, unchanged at a price to yield 4.85 percent.

They operate on a similar basis to insured personal pensions with access to collective funds, except that HMRC also allows direct investment in UK and overseas quoted securities as well as commercial property.

Local radio stations quoted security officials as saying that Muslim militiamen had kept an ammunition dump in the apartment building and that it blew up when the structure was hit by a shell fired from the Christian side.