The work of the Stock Exchange

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Identifikator:: 1831284952

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-225876

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Meeker, James Edward http://d-nb.info/gnd/126597340

Title:: The work of the Stock Exchange

Edition:: Revised edition

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: The Ronald Press Company

Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: XVI, 720 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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CONTENTS Pace sion house machinery in motion. Sequel to a margin purchase. The practice regarding transfers. Functions of the cashier. The bookkeeping side of stock brokerage. The customer’s statement. Summary of Mr. Blank’s transactions. How the brokerage com- mission 1s entered. The item of taxes on sales. Dividends and premiums. Computation of interest. Determining the customer’s margin. The margin card. Margin in points and percentage. Safeguarding the broker’s “box.” Present and former scope of ‘he stock market. The wire systems of today. The modern wire room. Arrangement of a wire system. National character of the stock market today. Benefits of the extension of brokers’ wires. Overcoming time and space. CuaprTER XVI THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. . . . . 442 What is the Stock Exchange? Stock Exchange membership. Constitution and rules. The Governing Committee. Powers of the governors. Disciplinary methods. Other Stock Exchange committees. Subsidiary corporations. Special departments. Em- ployees of the Stock Exchange. Association of Stock Exchange Firms. Disputes regarding contracts. “Wash sales.” Matching orders. The commission law. The circulation of rumors. Clos- ing contracts “under the rule.” Suspension of trading. Bucket- shops. Semi-annual and other financial statements. Past criti- cism of the Stock Exchange—question of incorporation. Instant action necessary. Enforcement of discipline. Not a profit-making organization. Jurisdiction of the Stock Exchange. Responsibility to public keenly felt. CuaprTEr XVII Fue Stock EXCHANGE AND AMERICAN BUSINESS. . - « Sensitiveness of security and money markets. The Wall Street point of view. No royal road to understanding price changes. The universal habit of personifying. Modern myths and myth- makers. The human-interest factor in news. Effect on the public mind. Services of the Stock Exchange to investors. The San Francisco earthquake. Importance of agriculture to the United States. The Stock Exchange and the American farmer. The modern American farmer’s needs. American labor’s stake in the Stock Exchange. The worker as an investor. The Stock Ex- change and our middle class. The purchase of income. Services of the Stock Exchange to the manufacturer. The Stock Exchange and modern banking. Services to the organized commodity mar- kets. The value of stock exchanges to modern government. Mar- keting the public debt. Furnishing the sinews of war. Organized markets and the consumer. Consumption the test of civilization. Growth of population under capitalism and socialism. The instance of Great Britain. The rising standard of living. Life in the Middle Ages. Standards of modern consumer. Future tasks of the securities market. 47 1

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