Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much as if the people were exacting usurious interest from their Government. In the last five years he has sold Treasury certificates bearing as low .as 2¾%. True, last October he was also obliged to pay 4¾%, but in December, coincident with a break in the stock market he was able to market an issue at 4¼%, although there was not the customary oversubscription of double or more. The March offering was taken to indicate that the Treasury does not expect "cheaper" money for some months. Last week the Treasury made public the fact that...
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. (with $4,581,920 in the call loan market); $1,528,782 as against...
...bankers have frequently been criticised for failure to proclaim in loud tones that stock market inflation is hurting U, S. business by making credit rates high and borrowing expensive. If the Market is on the way to running over a steep cliff into the sea, why have not the bankers endeavored to cast out its speculative devils? One reason, say cynics, is that the brokers are excellent customers...
Last week, however, one U. S. banker did speak his mind on speculation, flayed not only the Market but also the newly organized investment trusts, which he called "incorporated stock pools." This banker was Paul Warburg, Board Chairman of International Acceptance, which recently (TIME, Dec. 31) merged with Bank of the Manhattan Co. One of the formulators of the Federal Reserve System, a member of the Federal Reserve Board from 1914 to 1918, Mr. Warburg was eminently qualified to discuss stocks and money...
...income was $22,802,000, almost twice its 1927 figure of $11,799,650. Radio Corp. earned $11.80 a share (on shares outstanding at end of 1928). As its stock had a 1928 high of 420, it was selling up to approximately 35 times earnings, thus demonstrating that a market leader pays little attention to "times earnings" standards...