Posts Tagged ‘ Investment ’

A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

December 13, 2009
A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

PREFACE The idea expressed and the conclusions arrived at in this work, are the result of many years of careful thought and study, coupled with practical and varied experience of a very busy in connection with industrial, commercial, and financial affairs, both here and abroad. It is now nearly a quarter of a century,...

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Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

May 31, 2009
Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

Prefatory by Lyon Hastings About two years ago at the written request of several members of the Investment Bankers Association, the Board of Governors appointed a Special Committee consisting of Lawrence Chamberlain, Chairman, EW Bulkley and A.W Bullard, to consider the expediency of compiling and printing a text or texts of subject matter relating...

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British Mines Considered As A Means of Investment

May 28, 2009

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK Having had, for some years, considerable experience in the management of the business of British Mines, and having devoted much attention to mining in this country, I have often been astonished at the mistaken opinions and the want of information, which prevail on the subject. There are...

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A Primer of Scientific Investment by Emil Davies

May 22, 2009

FOREWORD. IT is a well-known fact that, while the public occasionally gains, and frequently loses, over its investments, the few big financial houses of the world, conveniently covered by the designation of la haute finance, consistently make large profits. The explanation of this indisputable fact is not to be found in the possession of...

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A Glimpse of Wall Street and Its Market by H.L Bennet

May 22, 2009

INTRODUCTION-SECURITY INVESTMENTS. The career of the average American may be described very appropriately as a sitting at the great world game of money making, and, taken all in all, it is the most successful seat at the green round table. Gladstone has been quoted as attributing his success very largely to the diversity of...

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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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