Direction Of Our Foreign Trade.
An analysis of our foreign trade for the whole of last year brings out some very interesting figures. Perhaps the most striking features are the much larger purchases of our......
Facing Facts.
Of course, if comparison were made with the high prices of a year or two ago, the fall would be very much greater, and it is scarcely surprising that rubber shareholders should......
Fall In Prices.
Undoubtedly, too, the chagrin of the market was increased by the fact that it was felt that the slump in rubber following this sudden announcement by the Government had played......
Finance-public & Private
National Economy NOT for the first time, I have to remind the readers of the Spectator, and especially those who are concerned with the vital question of economy in the National......
Financial Notes
THE RUBBER SLUMP. Qum& the outstanding feature of the past week has been the heavy fall in rubber and in rubber shares. The fall was, of course, due to the bomb-shell in the......
The Annual Report Of Maple And Company Is A Good
one, the profits having risen from £256,000 to £295,000, while the dividend is up from 14 to 15 per cent. Moreover, it must be noted that these results are reached after......
Prosperous Tobacco Industry.
There seems to be no limit to the profits from the great tobacco combines, though it is only fair to say that, so far as may be judged, the profits are due as much to sound and......
" Tim Flaw In The Economic System."
I regret that space prevents my dealing in the current issue of the Spectator with this book by Mr. J. Taylor Peddle, which has recently been published by John Murray, of......