29 SEPTEMBER 1939, page 28

Finance And Investment

IN any other circumstances than the present Sir John Simon's first war Budget would justly be described as brutal. True, it makes certain allowances for those caught by the......

* * * * Wall Street's Rise

It is a sad, but, one must admit, a logical, sequence of events in which the grimmer the aspect of the European situation the greater the speculative enthusiasm on Wall Street.......

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GOLD SHARE PROSPECTS Those who bought gold shares as a war hedge are some- what disgruntled at the recent turn of events. South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia, in slightly......