Teenage Scribblers

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Teenage Scribblers

A derogatory term for currency analysts and traders on the London markets. Teenage scribblers were blamed, rightly or wrongly, for some of the United Kingdom's financial woes in the 1980s and 1990s.

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While everyone else was concentrating on the big race, I was concentrating on my big race, the Bridge Selling Hurdle at Catterick, and a horse called Teenage Scribbler.

I thought there was a race to be won with Teenage Scribbler, if he could be kept sound, and, when he went to the sales, I and a friend, Ray Singer, bought him for 1,250gns.

Ray and I would get up early, drive to the gallops, watch Teenage Scribbler work better than a seller, then dream about spending our winnings.

When the day came, we had people in Glasgow, Manchester, Belfast and London each putting pounds 20 on Teenage Scribbler, whose forecast price was 12-1.

Rolling in it after an interminable wait in the fog; My best ever bet TRADING POST

One of my best lifts was pounds 60,000 on a selling hurdler called Teenage Scribbler at Catterick seven years ago.

HORSERACING: Seven years ago I stung bookies for pounds 60,000 in readies (Now I'm joining The Punter to give them a real bashing every Saturday)

And surely exactly what the City's teenage scribblers had in mind when they trashed Greggs' share price during the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, on the grounds that the whole idea of a "shop" was dead.

KEITH HANN COLUMNIST

The Hon Member for Birmingham Yardley, and a city councillor, stands accused of lazily recycling a press release doubtless prepared by teenage scribblers at party HQ and handed to all MPs to be sent on to equally lazy hacks.

IRON ANGLE: Does Hemming have gender issues; LOCAL GOVERNMENT WITH A SLANT

Then I watched their share prices plummet at the turn of the century as the teenage scribblers pronounced that the old economy was finished.

Get spending: you can't take it with you

If you thought manufacturers in Birmingham were having a tough time, you should see what's happening to the teenage scribblers and City slickers down in London.

John Bright: Stop ribbing the poor Lamb

Instead he is stuck in a mire of profit warnings and abuse from teenage scribblers he doubtless abhors.

Keith Hann column

Analysts - the teenage scribblers - who work for the banks forecast untold wealth.

Colt's 'mad' rollercoaster ride

A more plausible answer is, partly at least, the inability of the teenage scribblers in the City to recognise the value of companies which are not in something trendy though not necessarily at all profitable, like biotechnology or the Internet.

Bashing our heads over prejudice; Metal-bashing is nothing to be ahamed of, says Graham Findlay