28 AUGUST 1926, page 30

H. R. H.

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, at the recent opening of the British Industries Fair, urged on all members of the Empire their duty to foster and encourage British industry. " His......

Quiet Optimism Has Been The Prevailing Note On The Stock

Exchange markets during the past week. " Hope springs eternal," at all events in the breasts of Stock Exchange dealers and, just as there was hopefulness throughout the period......

Similarly, Of Course, Our Bankers Perform An Infinite...

financing the overseas trade of the country, •arid whil e it can also .be. admitted that even in financing foreign, , trade the effects indirectly often react favourably upon......

Colliery Fusion Rumours.

Nor has the market been entirely unaffected by the rumours current from time to time of possible big fusions, not only in colliery businesses but in some other key industries.......

Invisible Exports.

I agree with a correspondent who calls my attention to the ireportance of our invisible exports at a monment wh - en the visible exports are palpably falling off and occasioning......

Finance-public And Private

THE INVESTMENT OUTLOOK BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. A READER of these columns, while fully appreciating the effect of the coat stoppage upon our economic position, and while agreeing......

A Clerical Reader Of These Columns Appears. To Think That

in my comments upon our debt settlement with America I hare let that country off rather lightly in the matter of what he is inclined to describe as usurious demands on the part......