31 MARCH 1939, page 58

Chairmen See Signs Of Recovery Although Prospects Are...

say the least of it, in China and Japan, the chairmen ' s surveys at the annual meet- ings have held out hopes of a modest improvement in India. Mr. R. Langford James, at the......

Eastern Banking Progress

It requires very little reflection to see why 1938 was bouni to be a difficult year for banks operating in the Ea'i. Commodity prices were moving irregularly downwards, volume......

Financial Notes

HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY INVESTORS and depositors in the building societies will study the speech of the chairman of the Halifax Building Society chiefly to obtain enlightenment......

Venturers' Corner

After their sharp rise in early March home railway stocks have come in for a good deal of profit - taking in the last few days and prices have fallen well below their recent "......

Cement Share Yields

I see that Sir Malcolm Stewart took a cautiously hopeful view of the profit for cement companies at the annual meet- ing of British Portland Cement Manufacturers. One of the......