Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decrease in world wheat supplies means that the surplus which drugged the international market last year, following a remarkably large crop, will be largely non-existent this year. Prices will be higher and the U. S. farmer will garner the greater part of the advantage because his production is not off as much in proportion as the general world production...
...referring to "COTTON: SUDANESE WHITE GOLD." He said that the Government was making great efforts to increase the cotton production of the Commonwealth, not only in the Sudan but in other British-African possessions and in India. He said that a Nation could prosper by the "smell of the market" and to make the odor appetizing he announced that he was setting up an inquiry "into conditions of industry, particularly with reference to the industries working for the export trade...
...Cutten was successively a clerk in a hardware store, a brokers' messenger boy, a trader in the grain pits and member of the Chicago Board of Trade, and a dirt farmer and cash grain merchant. Earlier in the year, in the belief that a natural bull market in grains was ahead, he bought corn options at 75 cents a bushel. Last May corn prices slumped badly and forced Cutten to buy heavily to sustain prices. But this proved a blessing in disguise, for bad weather injured the crop, and the scanty prospective supply rose in price in consequence. After...
...many college economists in England-notably J. M. Keynes and Arthur Kitson-doubt the advisability of going back to the gold standard anyway, and, consciously or not, are inflationists. The Labor Government is also naturally in favor of easier money. Moreover, the London money market itself rather shrinks from pursuing the heroic seemingly necessary remedy of higher rates proposed by Mr. Leaf...
...steel market is dull just now for purely seasonal reasons. Ingot production in June was at an annual rate of 25,600,000 tons or about 47% of capacity. Buyers are placing only small orders and insisting on immediate shipment. As yet, steel prices have undergone no particular change, and at present apply to a comparatively small volume of business. When demand becomes more pronounced, a cut may be caused, owing to competition of different mills looking for business...