Investment, an exact science

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Identifikator:: 865521182

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-48767

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lowenfeld, Henry

Title:: Investment, an exact science

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: The Financial Review of Reviews

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 160 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII - The world's stock markets

Collection:: Economics Books

114 market, though the control is generally in the hands of Paris. To the holder of stocks it is, for the above reasons, not only important to know where an enterprise is situated and where its stocks were originally issued, but also which financial centre happens to determine their quotations. Not only do wars, political troubles, trade stagnation or prosperity influence the prosperity of the enterprises and the prices of stocks which are held in a country, but such events as these also affect the stocks in which that individual country is the dominant market. This is a point which should be most carefully considered by all those who desire to obtain a real international distribution of risks. Many investors object to hold stocks which they do not see daily quoted in the par ticular newspaper they regularly read, and this fact alone prevents them from obtaining a proper capital distribution. No newspaper is able to quote all the really important stocks of the world, as this item of intelligence alone would suffice to fill the most voluminous newspaper. The largest number of stocks which are at present quoted in any newspaper or periodical of any country are contained in the Financial Reviere of Reviews. But

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