“I’d like to help the scholarship programme a bit more,” Jim told him.
“That would be most kind.”
Pierre and his parents were talking and hugging. It was the happiest scene in the world.
Jim looked down at the cheque. It read: “One billion pounds only” and had his signature at the bottom. Stafford held out his bowler hat, which contained a series of folded paper slips in it. “I wonder which charity is going to be the lucky winner,” said Jim, dipping his hand in and rootling about. He took one out and opened it. “And the winning charity is …” He looked up at Stafford. “Why does this have your name on it in your handwriting?”
Stafford affected a pained grin. “Very amusing, sir. Will that be all?”
“That’s a very good question,” said Jim.
THE END
Clem Chambers is CEO of ADVFN (www.advfn.com), Europe and South America’s leading financial market website. Established in the last quarter of 1999, Chambers floated the company in 2000. The ADVFN website now has over 1,700,000 registered users. ADVFN is the number one destination for UK private investors, who log on to view global market data and use the site’s leading edge trading tools.
A broadcast and print media regular, Clem Chambers is a familiar face and frequent co-presenter on CNBC and CNBC Europe. He is a seasoned guest and market commentator on BBC News 24, Newsnight, BBC 1, CNN, SKY News, TF1, Working Lunch, China’s Phoenix TV, Canada’s Business News Network and US radio. Clem is renowned for calling the markets and predicted the end of the bull market back in January 2007 and the following crash. He’s appeared on ITV’s News at Ten and Evening News discussing failures in the banking system and featured in the Money Programme’s Credit Crash Britain: HBOS – Breaking the Bank and the BBC’s City Uncovered: When Markets Go Mad.
Chambers has written investment columns for Wired Magazine, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Express and currently writes for The Scotsman and Forbes. He was The Alchemist – stock tipster – in The Business for over three years and has been published in titles including: CityAM, Investors Chronicle, Traders Magazine, Stocks and Commodities, the Channel 4 website, SFO and Accountancy Age. He is a regular market commentator across all the main UK national press.
His first novel The Armageddon Trade was published by No Exit Press in 2009.
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