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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APPENDIX 653 thing is true among the 70 official Agents de Change in Paris. In the stock exchanges of London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, and other European centers where membership is not limited in this way, no such transferable value attaches to a membership. The price of a New York Stock Exchange “seat” varies according to supply and demand, and represents roughly a capitalization of its current and prospective earning power; through this latter fact it is a fair indi- cation of the contemporary activity of the stock market. Despite the valuable real estate holdings, etc., of the New York Stock Ex- change, the “asset value” of a seat is usually only a small proportion of its price. The prices of New York Stock Exchange seats have risen tre- mendously during the last sixty years. Members who joined the Exchange in the 60’s paid as little as $500 for them. In the boom year of 1882 the price rose to $32,500, but fell back to $20,000 in the panic of 1884. In 1885, however, they rose to a record high price of $34,000. In the panic of 1893 they collapsed to $15.250 and fell further to $14,000 in 1896. Thereafter, under active stock markets, the price rose to $80,000 in 1901; in 1902 it reacted to $60,000, in 1909 reached $96,000, and in 1913 dropped to $37,000. After the war, the augmented activity on the Stock Exchange led to a huge rise in the price of its seats. From a low point of $77,000 in 1921 the price passed through $100,000 in 1924, touched $150,000 in 1925, $200,000 in 1927, and $600,000 in 1929. During 1922-28, the average number of seats annually transferred was slightly in excess of 85 (see Annual Report of the President, 1928-29, p. 98). (XVIc) Concerning the legal bearing of an expulsion of a member from the Exchange, John G. Milburn, counsel for the New York Stock Exchange, testified before the Committee on Banking and Currency of the United States Senate as follows: “What then is the remedy of the member who has been tried and expelled? He may bring a suit in court, claiming that he has been illegally expelled. He can have all the proceedings before the board of governers produced in court. . . . “On the trial of his suit there is produced in court all the pro- ceedings before the board of governors, including the testimony taken and any documentary evidence, and the settled law is that to sustain the action of the governors it must appear, first, that the written charges alleged a specific violation of a rule; second, that the member had a hearing; third, that there was evidence to sustain the determina- tion of the board of governors; and fourth, that the board of gov- ernors acted in good faith. These are the requirements formulated in

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