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International Exchange

May 22, 2010

International exchanges have an unusual interest at the present time, and there is much confusion of thought in regard to the influences which fix exchange rates. They are in a highly sensitive state and like a person with shattered nerves react somewhat violently to changes in external conditions. This obscures to the onlooker the...

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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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Foreign Exchange and Foreign Bills in Theory and in Practice

May 22, 2010

PREFACE The object of this work is to present in a concise and simple form the theory and practice of Foreign Exchange. At first sight some apology may appear to be due for adding to the already long list of books on this branch of monetary science, but reference to the table of contents...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

May 18, 2010

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse of that colossal speculation popularly known in Bombay as the ” share mania,” a mania which in its ultimate consequences was more disastrous than either the South Sea Bubble Scheme,...

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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

April 19, 2010

FOREWORD The New York Stock Exchange can The be said to have been begun 125 years. Beginning ago 100 years of which it has of the passed under a formulated Constitution. Its beginning was three years after the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and the first meeting of Congress, three years...

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The Essential Features of Securities by Byron Webber Holt

April 19, 2010

What Our Problem Is There are available for purchase or sale securities of the widest possible variety, issued by countless corporations, municipalities, states, nations, etc. Merely to learn the names of all of them represents a quite impossible task. Equally varied with respect to their individual requirements are the purchasers and sellers of these...

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

April 5, 2010

PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston market offered to Investors, — a large class, comprising not only capitalists so termed, but a host of persons of smaller means, who seek out some one of the various...

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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

April 5, 2010

CYCLES AND STOCK MARKET RECORDS AN English economist whose unaffected humanity always made him remarkably readable, the late William Stanley Jevons, propounded the theory of a connection between commercial panics and spots on the sun. He gave a series of dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century, showing an apparent coincidence between the...

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The Stock Exchange Business, A Course of Study with References

April 5, 2010

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The Stock Exchange – A Short Study of Investment and Speculation by Francis Wrigley Hirst

April 5, 2010

INTRODUCTION IN an old Pennsylvanian almanac of the eighteenth century two qualities were postulated for success in business: first, application or industry, and second, thrift or frugality. The first without the second often leads to nothing. “A man if he knows not how to save as he gets, may keep his nose all his...

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The Art of Wise Investing – a Series of short articles on investment values

April 1, 2010

PREFACE While the popular impression is probably the reverse, yet it is an undeniable fact that a far vaster sum of money is annually lost in this country through unwise investment, than through pure speculation. While many fortunes are constantly jeopardized and dissipated through what is known as speculation in stocks, bonds, grain-futures and...

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Stocks and the Stock Market

March 31, 2010

With the development of large-scale machine production it was only natural that there should be a transition from the system of private partnership to that of Corporate organization, depending for its financial existence and support on the sale of bonds and stocks. Through the corporate form of organization it became possible to combine the...

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Stocks and Shares by Hartley Withers

March 31, 2010

INTRODUCTORY Stocks and shares are a matter of interest to all, and of bewilderment to most, of civilized humanity. The interest may be indirect and unrecognized. The salaried official may flatter himself, perhaps, that because he draws an income direct from Government he is beyond the reach of the influence of stock markets and...

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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...

Read more »

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...

Read more »

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,...

Read more »

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...

Read more »

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...

Read more »