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...state of mind prevalent among business men, however, has recently changed. During the winter, a boom in trade was eagerly anticipated. When, by early spring, this common expectation was shown to be vain, an attitude of alarm spread to some extent. The collapse of stockmarket prices, the St. Paul receivership, the Hindenburg election and other untoward incidents were cited as indicative of calamities to come...
Business was, last week, marking time and watching the stockmarket for indications as to future developments in trade and industry...
Everyone can, of course, see what is going on in the stockmarket, at least on the surface. Trading is becoming less active, prices are stabilizing on a lower level than obtained a few months ago. This much every ten-share trader can see. But the inner significance of it, the perception of the economic forces which are responsible for it-these are less obvious...
Hard on the heels of an unprecedented break in wheat came a severe reaction in the stockmarket. With money rates rising slowly, and an evident tendency on the part of Secretary Mellon (who, incidentally, is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board) to look askance at the large sums of money loaned hy banks on stocks and bonds, such a fall in share prices is not fundamentally surprising. There has been the further factor of evident over production in many basic industries to give pause to undue optimism...
...stockmarket, one of the leading sensations was provided by the astonishing rise in price of U. S. Cast Iron Pipe. At the time, talk of a corner by W. C. Durant abounded. Yet the annual 1924 report of the Company now shows that other than manipulative causes were responsible for the long advance of "Pipe Common." Net profit last year amounted to $6,587,188, compared with $4,062,699 in 1923, $1,583,058 in 1922 and only $629,429 in 1921. Net for 1924 amounted, after 7% preferred dividends, to $43.17 a share on the 120,000 shares...