Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution by Senator Smith (South Carolina) for an inquiry by the Committee on Agriculture into operations and relations among cotton exchanges, cotton spinners and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to look for market manipulation and "fixing" of cotton-price predictions...
...Exchange. If that listing is granted, they are reported to plan nothing less than the sale of both Wagons-Lits and "Cooks' " to U. S. investors. Their own holdings were acquired at a price far below the present high value of the shares. Thus, if the U. S. market proves receptive, they can sell at a profit not huge but fabulous...
...immediate prospect is another Australian Government loan, for a sum not yet announced by J. P. Morgan & Co., Australia's bankers, but reported to be between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000. The bonds, which will be the eleventh Australian issue brought out in the U. S. market, will bear 5% interest and will be sold in the neighborhood...
...explanation, the Federal Reserve Banks at New York, San Francisco and Minneapolis last week raised their re-discount rates from 3½% to 4%. The Chicago and Richmond banks had done the same the previous week. One effect of the rate changes forecast by financial commentators was that stock market quotations would fall sharply because market operators would find money too expensive to borrow. That did not happen appreciably last week. Another prognostication was that banks would make greater efforts than in the past few months to loan money to commercial and industrial organizations. Nor did that develop noticeably last...
...with the efect of the planets on earthly climate, quakes, floods; Mundane, concerning prosperity, plagues, wars; Natal, how the arrangement of the stars at the moment of birth determines a person's character, physique, life work; Horary, concerning the propitiousness of the stars for (or against) playing the market, getting married, leaving town. The last two branches of astrology are most in demand today...