Vickers and Marconi Chinese Loans Doubled Rumoured Petition to Dictator After China New Year Present Not the Time for a Minister of Reconstruction London, Jan. 16.
According to "Observer," financial authorities in the City. are completely mystified by the sensational rise in Vickers 8 per cent. Chinese Loan and the Marconi per cent. Wireless Loans, which have doubled their value in the last ten days under the influence of persistent buying throughout the country.
The newspaper declares that there is apparently no news from China to account for the improvement, and suggests that as Vickers and Marconi have recently been popular, investors are mistakenly imagining that there is a connection between the ordinary shares of the two companies and their Chinese:
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