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 III - The geographical distribution of capital

Collection:: Economics Books

E 47 the price-movements of a number of invest ments, every one of which belongs to a different country and is subject to a different trade influence. A very cursory glance at this chart will immediately establish the practical benefits which an investor derives from a wide geo graphical distribution of investment risks. In this chart the horizontal straight lines denote the intervals in the price levels of stocks, and the vertical straight lines mark off the yearly periods ; the zig-zag lines are a faithful pictorial presentment of the price movements of individual stocks. For the sake of convenience the respective quantities of the stocks have been adjusted, where necessary, in such a manner as to keep the size of the chart within reasonable limits. This variation in the quantities of the stocks, however, does not alter the relative positions of the price lines to each other. In order to make the picture as little tiring to the eye as possible and to keep the zigzag lines at reasonable intervals apart, we have also so arranged the quantities of the stocks that the price lines commence at fairly regular intervals between £875 and £1,190. Beyond this, the chart has been left to tell its own story ; and the reader who scans the names of the geographical divisions represented and

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