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

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natural course of price-movements, but as will be seen from the following chart the Ordinary stock of the Metropolitan District Railway Company did not follow the prevailing move ment :— The reason for this quite exceptional course of prices in the case of the Metropolitan District Ordinary stock was that a certain well-known syndicate of financiers had deter mined, first to obtain control of the line by buying up a sufficient quantity of stock to secure the majority of voting-power, and then to electrify the railway. The syndicate, in fact, prevented the natural movement of the stock by locking up large blocks of it, and so temporarily removing it from the influence of 112 (The top figure indicates the average price, the bottom figure the year in which it ruled). 109 / 1 896/ 105 _ 1895. 1899 CO 1900 1901 METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RLY. ORD. STOCK 1903 88 1904

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