Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Higher tariff rates would mean, in addition to a better protected domestic market, more revenue for the U. S. Treasury, hence, possibly, a reduction of U. S. taxation...
...city's gloom. Unofficially it was said that the N. G. L. had expected an increase in revenue of 20% when the Bremen, Europa and newly re-engined and speeded Columbus should be put in service. Shares of the N. G. L. were placed on the U. S. market last November by Direktor Stimming personally at $69. Dividends of $3.42 per share were paid last week but this showing was due in part to the fact that U. S. Treasury had recently paid to the N. G. L. $2,000,000 in cash compensation for piers at Manhattan seized...
...Tuesday, March 26, came the biggest stock market crash in Coolidge-Hoover history. For a week the market had been unquiet and harassed. Beginning with Wednesday, March 20, the market had registered falling prices, small recessions every...
...Monday, when the market reopened, speculators were nervous−their biggest bugaboo, the Federal Reserve Board, was to meet that afternoon. The usual Monday morning rally, produced by the accumulation of buying-orders during the weekend, failed to come. Call money was renewed at 9%. The rush of selling began. The bears pressed hot on the heels of their enemy; amateur speculators took flight and fled. Pool and investment houses which had been boosting favorites acknowledged the stampede, stepped aside to let it pass. The money rate went to 14%, the highest in nine years. At the close, many industrial...
...banks had withdrawn 25 million dollars from the market, a mere bagatelle, less than one-half of 1% of the five and three-quarter billion dollars in the market. The Federal Reserve Board had adjourned without speaking. The drop had been severe, but not quite so severe as the drop on December 6 and February 7. It would soon be time, the market said, for the shorts to take their profit, for bargain hunters to appear...