15 SEPTEMBER 1939, page 28

Finance And Investment

THESE are shadow markets in the City, but who can fail to be impressed by the smoothness of the transition to condi- tions of war? Every market is working under some form of......

The Stock Market Picture

In face of these uncertainties the market has begun to formulate some kind of estimate of investment possibilities, and its first thoughts already find expression in the move-......

Richard Thomas's Pi' 0 3pects

If any shareholders of Richard Thomas and Co. WC 7 - hoping that Sir William Firth's speech would give them a definite hint of the early resumption of preference di' dends, they......

Gold Mobilisation

I am not surprised at the official decision to concentrate the nation's gold reserves, however revolutionary this step may seem to the orthodox banker. Virtually the whole of......