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 II - What influences the realisable value of stocks

Collection:: Economics Books

-from an all-British Investment List is an abso lutely vain hope. Yet this vain hope may be said to constitute the sheet-anchor upon which the British investor relies to enable him to ride out every financial gale that blows, and this is why the amount of investment-shipwreck all round the United Kingdom is so appalling. Before he finally turns from the contem plation of this chart we would draw the reader’s attention to the fact that on it is depicted every type of English investment, and that the individual history of each of these stocks during the period between 1893 aud 1906 contained separate special events peculiar to that stock. But in spite of the variety of trades and interests represented in the chart, and in spite of the diverse indi vidual histories of the several securities during the period, all the price-movements are clearly indicated by, and, in the main, follow the price-movement of London & North Western Ordinary, and, where some small individual deviation does take place, such deviation is purely temporary, and the whole list of British investments is, in fact, controlled by the course of British trade and finance. And what is true of the securities of Great Britain is equally true of the securities of almost every other country. We demonstrate

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