Word: investors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Whitney (J. P. Morgan & Co.) advised the public to divert the flow of the country's exportable capital from foreign bonds to domestic investments that yield dividends. "Why," he asked, "should the American investor hold...
Concerning the titular patriarchs of the pagan-named* weekdays, there was but one ambiguity: Nathan or Oscar Solomon? It was neither, it was Simon William (S. W. Straus & Co., "no loss to any investor for 43 years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that...
Even under the reduced income and surtax rates of 1924, a taxable bond would have to yield 8.33% to net an investor with $500,000 or more income as much as a 4½% tax-exempt bond. Nevertheless, the prospect of tax reductions in the near future has apparently dulled the edge of the investor's appetite for tax-exempt bonds, for sales during the first half of 1925 were less than for the same period...
Some U. S. investors dislike the lower return thus allowed on new foreign flotations. But the day when high yield and relatively safe securities were plentiful in Wall Street has long since departed. Under the present conditions df easy money, the investor, individual or institutional, must take what...
Recently, an episode in the West showed that the farmer is just as difficult to advise as the investor or stock trader. The Department of Agriculture, after an investigation, reported that the decrease in potato acreage would amount to about 6% this year...