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market, though the control is generally in the 
hands of Paris. 
To the holder of stocks it is, for the 
above reasons, not only important to know 
where an enterprise is situated and where its 
stocks were originally issued, but also which 
financial centre happens to determine their 
quotations. 
Not only do wars, political troubles, trade 
stagnation or prosperity influence the prosperity 
of the enterprises and the prices of stocks 
which are held in a country, but such 
events as these also affect the stocks in which 
that individual country is the dominant market. 
This is a point which should be most carefully 
considered by all those who desire to obtain a 
real international distribution of risks. 
Many investors object to hold stocks 
which they do not see daily quoted in the par 
ticular newspaper they regularly read, and this 
fact alone prevents them from obtaining a 
proper capital distribution. No newspaper is 
able to quote all the really important stocks 
of the world, as this item of intelligence alone 
would suffice to fill the most voluminous 
newspaper. The largest number of stocks 
which are at present quoted in any newspaper 
or periodical of any country are contained 
in the Financial Reviere of Reviews. But