26 JUNE 1926, Page 31

FINANCIAL NOTES

OPTIMISTIC MARKETS.

APPARENT indifference to the effects of the coal stoppage with an increase not only in investment but in speculative activities continue to characterize the stock markets. Con- stant fresh issues of Trustee securities have failed so itsr to depress the markets for high-class investments, while in the more speculative sections favourite shares such as those of the tobacco companies, Courtaulds in the textile group, and some of the newspaper shares business has been on a large scale. Moreover, there are also increasing signs of summer activity in the market for rubber shares.

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