7 JULY 1939, page 38

Oil Consumption Trends

Mr. H. C. R. Williamson, the chairman of Lobitos Oilfields, feels no doubt that the trend of oil consumption must in the long run be upwards, notwithstanding the check to the......

Anglo-dutch Results

Rubber companies are now showing results which reflect the low prices and severe restriction of last year. Profits and dividends in general are sharply down. Anglo-Dutch......

Financial Notes

TOWARDS FULL EMPLOYMENT AT just under 1,300,000 the total numbers of the British un- employed are now back to roughly where they stood at the peak of the 1937 boom. The fall......

Venturers' Corner The Speculative Investor Who Does Not...

shares in small companies might do worse than consider the merits of Manganese Bronze and Brass ordinary is. shares at today's price of 8s. This old-established under- taking......

Unit Trust Developments

Regrettable as it undoubtedly is that the financial position of the British General Fixed Trust has become impaired, there is no cause here for any worrying on the part of unit......

Metal Box Company The Metal Box Company, As Manufacturers Of

the con- tainer which the canning industry uses, has an important role to play in the economics of national defence. Mr. F. N. Hepworth, the chairman, showed at the meeting last......