15 OCTOBER 1937, page 48

Hedging In Gilt - Edged Stocks

Even gilt-edged and other fixed interest securities have not been completely immune from this week's selling and War Loan and similar stocks have shed half a point. This is......

Wise Investment

MARKETS are a sad spectacle. Indeed, this week's events have strongly resembled an air bombardment (new style) in which non-combatants have suffered equally with those in the......

Venturers' Corner

The firmness of shipping freights after their recent big rise is very impressive, especially when commodity prices, with which they are usually fairly closely linked, have......

Australian Merchants' Shares One Hesitates, In The Light...

obvious uncertainties of international politics, to stress the merits of merchanting companies' shares, but with the proviso that the general recovery movement is maintained, I......

Good Preference Yields Income Yield Rather Than Capital...

also the attraction of D. and W. Murray new 5 per cent. los. preference shares at 7s. 9d. This company's preference dividend require- ments have been scaled down very......