Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Union reopened its selling agency, apparently ready to unload on Europe this fall enough produce to depress prices seriously. Within a few hours Russia's Rotterdam agents were selling wheat and barley in such volume that the Soviet Union's offerings were virtually setting the European market prices for these grains. In the Ukraine, "Granary of Russia," Soviet secret police last week swept into Zolochev, hunting for "wreckers." Soon the chief of the regional agricultural department, the chief of a tractor station and a collective farm chairman were lined up and shot-with prospects bright that they...
When brokers cleared their desks fortnight ago, hustled out of town for the Labor Day weekend, the market had been falling steadily for three weeks. Supposedly it had fully discounted both war in China and a sudden wave of pessimism over fall business prospects. But the day sun-browned brokers returned from their holiday, a first-class European crisis burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker...
...contemplates a $1,000,000 plant with electric furnaces near Mount Pleasant, Tenn., for which the company has signed a $500,000-a-year power contract with TVA. This hefty expansion could be swung by private financing, but August Kochs has lately been pestered by stockholders who want a market valuation for their stock. Therefore last week Victor Chemical Works offered a public sale of 150,000 shares, planned to seek listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Half the stock represents new financing, half was acquired from a group of stockholders. Price: $19 per share...
...over the same period last year, but exports to Japan rose 77% to $165,000,000 and exports to China rose 50% to $31,000,000, indicating that both warring factions anticipated trouble. Last week trade to Japan had suffered little, as was shown by the New York silk market, where prices declined on the belief that imports from Japan would continue to arrive on schedule. But exports to China were way off, since Shanghai normally handles more than 50% of China's foreign trade. Fruits and groceries consigned there were unloaded from ships in San Francisco, other cargoes...
...price of tungsten was $2.50 a ton. Last year it rose to $7. Fortnight ago it rocketed to $25. Last week the metal market was alarmed over a possible shortage, for China declared that she would withhold her tungsten from world markets as long as the war continues. Prices of high-speed tools at once rose...