Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Exchange. The Dutch Central Bank of Amsterdam recently raised its discount rate one point to 4½%. This is an indication of good business in Holland. Their industry is borrowing to finance an expanding trade. Guilders, Dutch money, last week closed at a record price, 40.30 cents each. This is 10 cents above par, a quotation that featured foreign exchange trading last week...
...turned out 2,172,000 bales for the October period. This was a decrease of 269,000 compared with September and the price of cotton advanced. The rise was not sustained. Excellent October weather extended picking and increased receipts, and the influence of a depressing stock market and uncertain trade promoted a decline. Cotton closed the week at 20.05 cents a pound for Demember delivery, at the 480 pound rate, $96.24 per bale...
Membership. The companies that will comprise the combination are: "Ig," which is the trade symbol of the famed Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie-the largest corporation in Germany and that country's dye trust...
Coolidge. President Coolidge last week announced after an analysis of country-wide scope that business and trade conditions of the U. S. were healthy. In the opinion of the President trade trends showed a continued advance. His statement caused a slight increase in prices on the stock market but for just one day. Wall Street, reasoning that the Chief Executive is usually optimistic, scrutinized his remarks with care. Some brokers questioned them. The loss in railway net receipt "is not great" was a contention of the President. The last available figures registered a decline of 11% which Wall Street considered...
Below the bubbles of diplomatic froth is going forward a work that represents real progress in international co-operation. The Conventions on the Traffic in Opium, on the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, on the International Regime of Railways, and on the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms have been signed or ratified by a majority of the countries of the world. It is safe to say that all the heralded accomplishment of the Hague Conference did not compare with the sum of these benefits...