17 FEBRUARY 1939, page 38

Southern Preferred Merits

In fact, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Southern Preferred, which has fallen from 66 to 601 since the accounts were published and which still includes £4 gross of......

L.m.s. Achievement The Odds Against All The Railway...

over- whelming last year, but the London, Midland and Scottish put up a remarkable fight. The extent of the savings effected by the management is brought out even more strik-......

Financial Notes

FIRST STORES RESULTS A FIRST batch of profit figures from the big department stores shows a moderate recession during the year ended January 31st, which will occasion neither......

Rubber Quota Unchanged

The International Rubber Regulation Committee ha' cheered a large number of rubber shareholders, and a smalls; number of Mincing Lane traders, by making no change in th_......

Venturers' Corner Even In These Dull Days, When High Yields

on semi- speculative preference shares are common enough, indicated return of over ii per cent. requires a little ex- amination. At 12s. 6d. the 5 per cent. cumulative......

Great Western Record Broken

Alas! Paddington has not kept up the running set by Waterloo and Euston. Frankly, I did not expect that it would, for it was surely optimistic to suppose that any- thing but a......