... SWEDEN SOUND Not Going Off Gold Standard Says Minister Rumours from abroad that Swedish finances have been thrown out of gear and that difficulties regarding the balancing of the Budget have materialised are untrue, declares the Minister of Finance ...

... no work done. Crowds of stockbrokers and clerks hs side the Stock Exchange yesterday, discussing the suspension of the gold standard as a result of which the Exchange was closed. London, .. - - . , • -- , r '. , • . . • ,g , ' -,--,.- • ' .. • , s .. ~ ...

... gold to be sent abroad — What the gold standard means. From newspaper headlines of this nature we—the public—have gathered that there is some very considerable excitement about gold in general and the gold standard in particular. Gold appears to rule ...

... business and commerce. Having gone off the gold standard we had better stay off it and try to reconstruct the finance and trade of the world on a new basis. We should call a conference of the non-gold standard countries of the world, which included Austealia ...

... is quoted at 16. Most of the other rates were unchanged. but Stockholm was an exception owing to the suspension of the gold standard In Sweden. To-day's rate on that country was quoted at 17 to 19, compared with 141 to 15 on Saturday. NEARLY TO PAR This ...

... floated in London. _ . . _ Mr. Wise also spoke in the debate on the new Gold Standard Bill. He said it was plain that if the cost of living was to be increased by going off the gold standard the whole case for putting up the cost of living by means of Protection ...

... WORLD'S MONEY MARKETS The British Government's decision to suspend the gold standard still continues to have widespread repercussion in all the financial markets of the world. The resolution of the Governing Committee of the New York Stock Exchange requiring ...

... Ilie. deputy president. said that they most all regret that it had not been possible for Great Britain to remain on the gold standard. The int:oduction of tariffs, he proceeded. should considerab:y help our exports. 4- We shall. he Said. possess a bargaining ...

... Government prescribed for the savirz of their friend the Gold Standard, who, however, had now died after some of their earlier • treatment. He was not suggesting that their treatment killed the Gold Standard, but at any rate it failed to presarve its life. This ...

... (writes our City Editor). Recent events have placed them in a very enviable position, inasmuch as our moving off the gold standard has led to the sterling value of these securities appreciating materially. Stock which last week was quoted at, say, 48 ...

... for the strong National Government, and we had to go off the Gold Standard. A glance to-day at the foreign exchange quotations of sterling will show that since we went off the Gold Standard, as can only be expected, the pound has slumped heavily. All ...

... confidence they have not had for years, added Mr. Eadd In a reference to the decision PI the Government to come off the gold standard. Mr. Sadd said: 'lt appmrs to have astonished the whole world that we have not become the least excited about it or panicky ...