Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmers of the United States also we promise not patronage but such laws and such administration of the laws as will enable them to prosper in their own right. . . . They feel today, more severely perhaps than any others, the depressing effect of discriminatory taxation. Buying in a protected market and selling in a market open to the world, they have been forced to contribute to the profits of those in other industries with no compensating benefit to themselves. . . . We propose to see to it that the discriminations which the tariff makes against the farmer shall be removed; that his Government...
...coming barrage of political bombast and fustian may chill the somewhat delicate bloom of trade and industrial sentiment. Indeed the stock market seems to reflect such an occurrence. Yet the country has survived many major political campaigns, and probably will manage to this year, too. Meanwhile prospects for better business are extraordinarily bright and pronounced, while current business for the most part is extraordinarily dull and unsatisfactory...
...large a proportion of the world's supply of coffee is raised in the Brazilian states of San Paulo and Santos that the recent revolution in that section has had an important effect on the world coffee market. Spot coffee in New York rose in July to 17.15 cents-its highest price since 1921. America has gone ahead drinking coffee as usual, but about 800,000 bags of coffee which normally would by this time have reached Santos ready for shipment here are still held in the Brazilian interior by the revolt. The present visible supply of Brazilian coffee...
...correctness of present estimates. Reports last week were that black rust and weather conditions had cut the Canadian yield from last year's 400 million bushels to 200 or 225 million. Canadians sniffed at these reports. If these estimates are too small, there will probably be a market reaction...
Significance. Theoretically, the importance of the order would seem to be a likely shift of the center of the steel industry. With Pittsburgh Plus abolished, many manufacturers would immediately build factories near other steel-producing centres, now free to market at reduced prices. Gary, Ind., particularly, has watched the Pittsburgh Plus fight with intense interest. Business circles, however, attached little significance to the Commission's action in its immediate effect upon the steel business...