23 APRIL 1932, Page 36

Financial Notes

DULL MARKETS.

APART from the continued firmness of British Funds and high-class investment securities, the . stock markets have been dull during the greater part of the past week. There was the usual restriction of business pending the Budget statement, and although Mr. Chamberlain's Budget has fairly well complied with expectations, markets as 'a

• whole have been more affected by other factors, such, for • example, as the threatened Greek default and the parlous financial condition of some of the Central European countries, to say nothing of the far-reaching effects of the Nteuger and Toll collapse and anxieties which still continue con- cerning the situation in the Far East. s * * •