17 DECEMBER 1927, page 33

Empire Banking.

Considerable interest attaches to the second Report of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), as that institution, is now concerned with activities in various parts Of......

Financial Notes

EUROPEAN LOANS BETTER. NOT the least satisfactory feature in the Stock Markets during the past week has been the better tone displayed in some of the European reconstruction......

Exports Advance.

Nevertheless, the good feature in the trade returns for last month is not simply that the value of exports showed an increase of about £17,000,000 compared with a decrease of......

Finance—public And Private

Better Trade Figures AT long last there are not wanting some signs of a turn in 'the tide of our foreign trade. For so many years it has, been necessary for me to comment......

Bwana M'kubwa Copper Mining.

At the recent annual meeting of this company Sir Edmund Davis had a very satisfactory statement to lay before the shareholders. It is true that the balance-sheet had shown a......

Large Consumption Of Foodstuffs.

So far as the balance of trade for the month is concerned, the position is strengthened by the fact that the value of imports shrank by nearly £6,000,000, though that fall was......

The Adverse Balance.

Lest there should be a tendency to exult prematurely over the moderate improvement in the November figures, it may be well to note that in spite of the increase in exports and......