4 NOVEMBER 1932, Page 38

Financial Notes

INVESTMENTS IIALLYENG.

THE influences operating upon the Stock Markets during the Past week have been of a varied and somewhat conflicting character. Under the influence of cheap money and rumours conc-erning a new Government Loan, British Funds, after a temporary set-back in connexion with the fall in the value of the pound, experienced a fresh rally, and, as will be seen from the previous article, these rumours of a new GovernMent Loaft have obtained confirmation from the announcement in 'Wed. nesday morning's papers. In sympathy with British Fuod4, other high-class investment stocks have risen, but some of the more speculative markets have been less firm, being influenced by uncertainties with regard to the outcome of the Presidential Election in the United States, the oscillations in sterling, and the duller tone of the Paris Bourse.