Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble which beset the Youngstown issue helps explain a relatively new departure in U. S. financing-private sale of securities from corporation to investor without benefit of underwriters or SEC. Last year this kind of quiet dickering achieved a record volume of $500,000,000. This year, private sales have already reached $300,000,000. Fortnight ago, Celanese Corp. floated $10,000,000 in debentures privately. Other examples: U. S. Rubber, $45,000,000; Consolidated Oil $25,000,000; Detroit Edison...
Hearing that British Drug Tycoon Philip Ernest Hill (Beecham's Pills. Ltd., Veno Drug Co.) was taking the cure at Carlsbad, the London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . . And so I've come to Carlsbad, and I sip the filthy water . . . Proprietary medicines-are they everything they oughter...
...still more hopeful postscript: residential building contracts in August were 17% above August 1937. Financial Reporter thereupon declared that F. W. Dodge Corp.'s 37-State tabulation of $1,297,513,000 worth of construction awards in the first half of 1938 meant that "as far as the investor ... is concerned, this industry deserves close and serious consideration...
...below its par of 100 marks per share. None doubted that without the strict Nazi control of German finance the break would have been even worse. Although prices later recovered perhaps half their losses last week, as the Reichsbank strongly supported blue chips, the mood of the average German investor had turned deeper blue...
...defense. Only one of the four to put these ideas into print is Fitch's, now preparing a book. Meanwhile, Associate Professor Gilbert Harold of the University of Oklahoma produced a book called Bond Ratings as an Investment Guide, concluded: "The ratings operate quite effectively to protect the investor against loss. . . . The record is not perfect . . . but it is certainly beyond reasonable criticism...