Posts Tagged ‘ foreign currencies ’

How well are fluctuating exchange rates working?

May 22, 2010

Focusing on the questions (a) of how well fluctuating exchange rates are working and on the related issue (b) of what sort of guidelines should be established to regulate central bank intervention in exchange markets is particularly appropriate now for a number of reasons. First, despite the float, the dollar continues to slip in...

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Guttag’s Foreign Currency and Exchange Guide

May 22, 2010

PREFACE Since the World War 1914-1918 a greater interest generally has been created in Foreign Monies and Exchange, and from questions which have been put to the publishers in the course of business it appears that a book such as this is needed. It is not our intention to publish a Text-book on this...

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Foreign Exchange – Theory and Practice

May 22, 2010

PREFACE Foreign exchange is attracting more attention than any other branch of finance. The interest evinced is universal and is no longer confined to bankers, international traders, and financial writers, as was the case prior to the Great War. The general public is showing a decided disposition to acquaint itself with the dislocation of...

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Foreign Exchange Before, During, and After the War

May 22, 2010

The Market and its Meaning Ours is a, weary and disillusioned generation, dealing with a world which is nearer collapse than it has been at any time since the downfall of the Roman Empire. The problem which is discussed in this little book is an integral part of the general problem of reconstruction after...

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Elements of Foreign Exchange – a Foreign Exchange Primer

May 22, 2010

WHAT FOREIGN EXCHANGE IS AND WHAT BRINGS IT INTO EXISTENCE UNDERLYING the whole business of foreign exchange is the way in which obligations between creditors in one country and debtors in another have come to be settled — by having the creditor draw a draft directly upon the debtor or upon some bank designated...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse...

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The New York Stock Exchange; a Discussion of the Business Done, Its Relation to Other Business, To Investment, Speculation and Gambling by H S Martin

FOREWORD The New York Stock Exchange can The be said to have been begun 125 years. Beginning ago 100 years of which it has...

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The Essential Features of Securities by Byron Webber Holt

What Our Problem Is There are available for purchase or sale securities of the widest possible variety, issued by countless corporations, municipalities, states, nations,...

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Twenty-One Years in the Boston Stock Market by Joseph Gregory Martin

PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston...

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The Stock Market Barometer : A Study of Its Forecast Value Based on Charles H. Dow’s Theory of the Price Movement

CYCLES AND STOCK MARKET RECORDS AN English economist whose unaffected humanity always made him remarkably readable, the late William Stanley Jevons, propounded the theory...

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