Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the speakers were: Professor O. M. Sprague, professor of Banking and Finance at Harvard; Dr. George H. Gallup, president of the American Institute of Public Opinion; Elmo Roper, president of the Market Survey Concern of Elmo Roper; and George B. Hotchkiss professor of Marketing at New York University...
Such a tidal wave of foreign-owned securities poured into the U. S. market at the outbreak of war in 1914 that the New York Stock Exchange closed its doors, did not reopen for nearly five months. Since then the U. S. has changed from a debtor to creditor nation and its markets are less susceptible to foreign liquidation. Also since 1914 the Government has acquired, in the Federal Reserve and SEC, a degree of financial control far firmer than even the elder J. P. Morgan could mobilize. Thus last week, as official Washington unofficially talked of war within...
...keep distress selling of the estimated $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 worth of Anglo-French-owned U. S. securities from cracking the market, already depressed by widespread bearishness on domestic business prospects, obvious aids would be: 1) to relax margin requirements to protect investors; 2) to further ease credit through the Federal Reserve; 3) to put a floor under Exchange prices by setting a limit on each day's fluctuation, such as the Government now does in the wheat market. One precaution Administration leaders took last week was to prod Congress into extending until...
...managing two investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...
Loft stock, which had been selling at 75? in March 1938, zoomed to $9 on the court decision, has since been one of the market's liveliest issues. Last week the Delaware Supreme Court turned down Mr. Guth's appeal. That day Loft was the most active issue on the New York Stock Exchange, with sales of 87,600 shares, closed...