New York Stock Exchange : its functions and operations.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:New York Stock Exchange.
Imprint:[New York] : Committee on Public Relations, New York Stock Exchange, ©1936 (New York : Press of A. Colish)
Description:39 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3109257
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other form:Online version: New York Stock Exchange. New York Stock Exchange. [New York] : Committee on Public Relations, New York Stock Exchange, ©1936 (New York : Press of A. Colish)
Table of Contents:
  • Value of memberships
  • Antiquity of markets
  • New York, a trading post
  • Early American securities
  • Exchange organized
  • Age of expansion
  • Oils and metals
  • Exchange expands facilities
  • Exchange acts as capital reservoir
  • Stockholder's rights worth 5.87 billions
  • Security owners, direct and indirect
  • A typical transaction
  • Paging a member
  • Trading posts, bids and offers
  • Transaction reported
  • Tickers
  • Delivery and payment
  • Commissions
  • Margin
  • Unit of trading, odd lots
  • Inactive post
  • Member's functions differ
  • The $2 broker
  • The odd lot dealer and the floor trader
  • The specialist
  • The bond broker
  • Exchange government
  • Exchange stresses spirit of laws
  • Exchange provides safeguards for investors
  • Glossary.