Financial Notes
INVESTMENT EASIER.
DULLNESS has been the prevailing note in the stock markets during the past week, and elsewhere I refer to some of the factors which at the moment are exerting a restraining in- fluence upon most departments of the Stock Exchange. Gilt- edged securities have reacted a little. after their recent rise, while Home Railway Ordinary Stocks have been dull on ner- vousness with regard to forthcoming Interim dividend statements. I say forthcoming," but as a matter of fact they will probably just have been announced by the timethis article is in print. The nervousness with regard to the dividend announcements has been due to the fact that traffic returns have been of a very disappointing character ; but there is, of course, the possibility that the Interim dividend announce- ments may be accompanied by some statement showing that there has been a saving in expenditure. Transatlantic Indus- trial shares have drooped in sympathy with renewed dullness in Wall Street, while in other directions a feature has been the flatness of Tin shares and Rubber shares.
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