11 JANUARY 1930, page 36

Finance—public And Private

The Railway Outlook IN my article last week dealing with the Stock Market outlook for 1930 I expressed the opinion that prospects favoured easier monetary conditions in the near......

B.a.t. Earnings.

At the recent meeting of the shareholders of the British American Tobacco Company, the Chairman, Sir Hugo Cun- liffe Owen, made some very interesting and illuminating state-......

Financial Notes -

MARKETS CHEERFUL. THE year has opened in fairly cheerful fashion on the Stock Eichange, the cue being given, as mentioned elsewhere, by gilt-edged securities and also to some......

Banking And Discount Results.

Up to the*present the profits disclosed by banking and dis- count houses 'have coincided with general expectations. Barclays Bank announces the maintenance of the previous......

Life Assurance In 1929.

Once again the leading Insurance companies show a further great increase in business for the past year. Space prevents my commenting upon the returns in detail, but it may be......

India.

Not a few holders of India stocks are very natfiially displaying anxiety concerning both the news from that country and the fall which has taken place in India stocks. Nor is......