27 FEBRUARY 1926, page 32

Financial Notes

SECURITIES QUIET. PENDING a clearer monetary outlook, the Stock Markets con- tinue to mark time. Easy discount rates have helped to keep high-class investment stocks firm,......

Selfridge's Progress.

The good profit figures and increased dividend recently announced by Selfridge and Company are amply justified by the full report and balance sheet which have since been issued.......

Building Society's Progress. Notwithstanding The Great...

Abbey Road Permanent Building Society in its Jubilee year of 1924, those results have been substantially exceeded during the past year, the new share capital and deposits during......

Insuring Education.

The Legal and General Insurance must be congratulated upon having devised what is certainly the latest and most novel scheme of insurance. Briefly . stated, the Society has......

Paying For Our Imports.

By common consent the address delivered last week by Mr. Walter Runciman, the President of the Chambei. of Shipping of the United Kingdom, was one of exceptional interest and......

By Arthur W. Kiddy The Four " Grouped " Railway

systems have again had to entrench upon their reserves in order to pay their dividends, and with the exception of the Southern, they have paid smaller dividends and taken more......