HOLLAND AND BELGIUM
~ FLIGHT OF CAPITAL
TENSE SITUATION
EFFECT ON SECURITIES
MARKETS
(By retegraph—Press Association—Copy right.)
(bßeceived November 13, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, November 12,
Increasing alarm for the security of the Netherlands has flattened out business on the London Stock Exchange, and the Continental bourses.
Amsterdam is the worst sufferer, but Brussels is similarly affected.
The flight of capital from Belgium and Holland had sharp repercussions on all London Stock Exchange quotations.
The Netherlands authorities have been obliged to intervene in order to maintain guilder exchange, but official support of the Belgian currency is less vigorous, with the result that the belga ha*s sharply declined.
The Netherlands is believed to have made considerable inroads in its gold reserves in its efforts to maintain the guilder.
Capital has been flowing freely from Holland to New York during the past few weeks.
The Paris bourse, by contrast with London, Brussels, and Amsterdam, took but little notice of the disquieting developments of the situation as between Germany and Holland, and actually closed the week on a firmer tone.
However, the outlook is for a dull business week, unless the situation Clears up over the weekend.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 10
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192HOLLAND AND BELGIUM Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 10
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