16 FEBRUARY 1940, page 34

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS - IT is now apparent that the Treasury has taken the first hurdle in its open-market borrowing programme in good style. Conversion applications of £236,000,000 out of......

* * * * C.p.r. Shock

Dividend forecasting in the case of the Canadian Pacific Railway is a notoriously tricky business. Net operating earn- ings may point to one decision and unpredictable items in......

Boom In Rail Stocks Whatever The Ultimate Social...

the Govern- ment's financial deal with the railways, the immediate results for stockholders are obviously good. If one assumes, as I think is reasonable, that the railways' net......

Report On Competition No.. 21 Certain Celebrated Men Of The

past—Dr. jowett and the Rev. W. A. Spooner were given as examples—are remembered less for their real achievements than because of the agreeable anecdotes (generally apocryphal)......