20 AUGUST 1937, page 36

Our Foreign Trade.

Undoubtedly, active conditions continue to characterise the domestic trade of the country, and the Foreign Trade Returns for the month of July show the highest total of exports......

Financial Notes,

DISTURBED MARKETS. IT would seem that the Stock Markets are destined to be dominated by external influences. The Spanish War con- tinues, but for the moment even that depressing......

Corporation Loans.

British Funds and other gilt-edged securities have not escaped the dullness which has characterised all sections of the Stock Markets during the last few days and, among the......

Fraudulent Share-pushing.

In last week's Spectator, under the title of Share Sharks," the writer dealt briefly, but very fairly, with the Report of the Government Departmental Committee on Share-pushing.......

" Hot " Money In America.

The authorities at Washington are evidently still concerned at the extent to which credit resources in the United States are expanding by reason of the long-continued influx of......

Finance

A DULL WEEK IN THE CITY—THE FAR EASTERN CRISIS—RAILWAY WAGES AWARD SINCE my article of a week ago was written there have been at least two important events which have affected......

Canadian Credit.

Apropos of what I wrote last week concerning the effect upon Canadian credit of the recent proposals by the Government of the Province of Alberta to control the banking......