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Whatever Other Industries May Flag, The Big Oil Concerns...

to have no difficulty in maintaining prosperity. The Royal Dutch Report for 1925 showed profits of 94,500,000 florins, as compared with 87,980,000 florins in the previous year,......

Allied Newspapers.

The profits of Allied Newspapers being shown this year in the net form, comparison with the previous year is difficult. The results, however, are so good that the point is, is a......

The Annual Report Of The Hudson's Bay Company Fully Bears

out the favourable impression created by the dividend announcement. The net profit on trading for the year was 2254,000, as compared with 2211,000 in the previous year, while......

Lobitos.

The Report of the Lobitos Oilfields is also a good one, showing an increase in the net profit from 2238,000 to £266,000. £50,000 is again placed to the Reserve, and a divi- dend......

Further Fall In The Franc.

The French nation is now learning by experienCe how inclined and slippery becomes the path of inflation the longer it is pursued. During recent weeks we have had further large......

So Long As A Few Leading Industrial Combines Continue To

declare dividends and bonuses- on the scale of those recently announced by certain of the Tobacco Companies, it is not sur- prising that the industrial group—apart from key......

Finance-public And Private

Ix these days of easy optimism when to emphasize the inherent common sense of the workers and our wonderful stores of reserve wealth and our recuperative powers is more popular......

Financial Notes

NEW CAPITAL RESULTS. To a. great number of successful fresh issues of capital has now to be added the Victorian Loan, which appears to have been covered about fourteen times,......

`spectator' Competition,

JUNE 19, 1926 Competitors must cut out and enclose this coupon. (See page 1045.3......