15 MARCH 1940, page 50

Finance And Investment

As everybody hoped and most of us expected, the £300,000,000 War Loan has been launched successfully with very little fuss. The terms were right, in the sense of being closely......

Brazil Debt Settlement

One by one Britain's defaulting foreign debtors are coming to terms in the matter of debt service resumption. There is every reason why they should in view of their improving......

C.p.r. Preference Position

Now that we have detailed figures of the Canadian Pacific's earnings, I cannot say that as a preference share- holder I should feel at all satisfied about the passing of the......

Courtaulds' Outlook

While I find it difficult to muster much enthusiasm, from the capital appreciation standpoint, for many of our leading industrial ordinary shares, I cannot help liking the......

Rail Earnings Estimates

With characteristic enterprise the home railway market has lost no time in compiling a quick guide to earnings and yields on the more speculative stocks at various stages of net......

Emergency Subscription Rates In Order To Economise Paper,...

of newspapers and other journals supplied to newsagents on the usual sale-or- return basis has now to be seriously restricted. Readers of The Spectator are therefore urged to......