TRUE TO FORM
AUGUST MARKETS
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
(Received August 12, 12.10 p.m.)
LONDON, August 11
The August Stock Exchange markets are running ■ true to form with business reduced to a minimum under the combined influence of holidays and international uncertainties, but though prices are tending to drift, there is no sign of real weakness.
The wool textile trade is enjoying remarkable activity, and the percentage of unemployed has dropped to 6 per cent., compared with 22 in June last year. The estimated consumption of imported wool for the first half of the year increased by 41 per cent, compared with 1938.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1939, Page 9
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102TRUE TO FORM Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1939, Page 9
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