INDEX
- Advertisement by members, 42
- outside brokers, 43
- Allotment, dealings before, 98-100
- American prices, 156
- Apprenticeship of members, 18-19
- Royal Commission on, 127-8
- Arbitrage firms, 156
- Architecture of the House, 7
- Art Society, 164
- Athletics, 162-3
- Backwardation, 69
- Badges for clerks, 25
- Banging the market, 71
- Bank of England, Stock Exchange in, 43, 142-3
- Bankruptcy of members, 102-3
- Bank shares, dealing in, 145
- Baring crisis, 147
- Bar of the house, 9
- Battle of Throgmorton Street, 148
- Bearer bonds, 88
- Bearer securities, settlement in, 61
- Bears, 65-71
- Benevolent Fund, 164
- Boom, 167
- Brokerage, 39-41, 49-50
- Royal Commission on, 132
- Brokers, 32-44
- Bucket shops, 121
- Bulls, 65-71
- campaign, 70
- Bulls, definition, 67
- "Burdett's Official Intelligence," 146
- Business, how it is transacted, 45
- done, record of, 117-18
- Buying in, 61
- manager, 30
- Capel Court, 6
- Stock Exchange established in, 141-2
- Capital, organisation of, 3-4
- of the Stock Exchange, 13
- Carry-over, 51
- process of, 67-9
- Certification of transfers, 54
- Change Alley, Stock Exchange in, 65, 139, 140-2
- Charity, 161-2, 164-5
- Checking bargains, 48, 151
- room, 8
- Christian Association, 164
- Clearing house. See Settlement Department
- Clerks, 23-5
- provident fund, 164
- Closing time, 119, 157
- Commission. See Brokerage
- Committee, the, 26-31
- Companies Acts, 145
- Committee on, 146
- Consols, put option on, 73-4
- Consol settlement, 56
- Contango day, 57
- rate, 68-9
- Continuation. See Carry-over
- Contract note, 48-9
- Cost of the House, 13
- Coupons, 88
- Covering by bears, 71
- Cumulative preference shares, 93
- Debenture stocks, 91-3
- Debentures of the Stock Exchange, 14
- Defaulter, 60, 101-8, 131
- Deferred ordinary shares, 94-6
- Definitions of the Stock Exchange, 1
- Differences, speculation for, 50
- payment of, 60
- Directory of members, 124
- Discount, 115
- Dividends paid by the Stock Exchange, 16-17
- Drawings of the interior, 8
- Dual control of the Stock Exchange, 30
- Royal Commission on, 126
- Employees, dealing for, 50-51
- Entrance fee for members, 21, 25
- Establishment of the Stock Exchange, 141-2
- Exchange Telegraph Company, 121-2
- Ex dividend, 115-16
- rights, new, all, 117
- Expulsion, 28
- Failures. See Defaulter
- Fixed charge stocks, 92
- Foreign Loan Exchange, 142
- Foreign Loans Committee, 146
- Foreigners, exclusion of, 18
- Founders' shares, 96-8
- Gambling, speculation, and investment, 130, 165-8
- Garraway's Coffee-house, 139
- Gorgonzola Hall, 7
- Guarantors for new members, 20
- Hall of Commerce, 144
- Hammering, 102
- Hammer price, 103
- History: a sketch, 138-49
- Holidays, 29, 163
- "House Annual, The," 161
- "House on Sport, The," 162
- Incorporation proposal, 135-7
- Inscribed stocks, 85-7
- Interior of the House, 7-13
- Jobbers, 32-44
- Jobber's turn, 47
- Jonathan's Coffee-house, 140-41
- King's visit, 8, 146
- Lame Duck, 65, 71
- Leeman's Act, 145
- Library of financial documents, 123-4
- Literature, 161-2
- Making a market, 113
- Mr. Justice Wright on, 148
- Making a price, 44
- Making-up day, 57
- price, 67-8
- Managers, the, 14
- Markets in the House, 9-12
- Marking prices, 48
- Members, 18-25
- Membership restrictions, 18-19, 22
- Mining Contango day, 57
- Name day, 51, 57
- National Debt, 138
- New House, the, 146
- Official Assignees, 102, 104, 106
- "Official Intelligence," 123
- "Official Intelligence," predecessors, 146
- Official List, 29, 109-10
- Options, 72-83
- Orchestral and Choral Society, 164
- Ordinary shares, 94
- Overend-Gurney crash, 145
- Panics, 144
- Par, 115
- Partnership prohibition, 33
- Photographs of the interior, 8
- Play in the House, 163
- Population of the House, 18
- Practical jokes, 163
- Preference shares, 94
- Preferred ordinary shares, 94-6
- Premium, 115
- Prices, double, 45-6
- Price lists and records, 109-24
- brokers', 120
- Proprietors, the, 13
- Prospectuses, 112-15
- Provident Fund, 164
- Public admission question, 131-2
- Quotations. See Prices
- "Railway Intelligence," 146
- Railway mania, 144
- Registered securities, 87
- Rigging the market, 70
- Royal Commission, 125-37
- Royal Exchange as the Stock Exchange, 138
- Rules, 27-8, 142
- Scrip, 100
- settlement in, 62
- Secretary of the Stock Exchange, 15
- Secretary to the Committee, 30
- Selling out, 51-2, 61
- Settlement, the, 56-64
- Settlement department, 58-60
- Settling room, 8
- clerks, 24
- Share, definition of, 1-2, 84
- certificate, 53-5
- Share and loan department, 54
- Shares of the Stock Exchange, 16
- Shorter's Court, 119-20
- Situation of the house, 6-7
- Slump, 167
- South Sea House as the Stock Exchange, 139
- Speculative business restrictions, 50-51
- made illegal, 140
- Sport, 162
- Stags, 66-7
- Stamp duties, 49
- Stock, definition of, 1-2, 84
- Strangers in the House, 8
- Street markets, 119-20
- battle of the, 148
- Subscription for members, 21-5
- Superintendent, general, 15
- Talons, 88
- Tape prices, 12, 121-2
- Telephone, use of the, 154-5
- Tickets, 51-2, 57-9
- for inscribed stocks, 86
- Ticket day, 51, 57
- Transfer, 52-5
- of Consols, 85-7
- Transvaal War Fund, 165
- Refugees' Fund, 165
- Trustees and Managers, the, 14
- Trustee stocks, 89
- Turn, jobber's, 47
- Underwriting of capital, 41-2
- Vendors' shares, 98
- Waiters, 12, 102
- Wares of the Stock Exchange, 84-100
- "Weekly Official Intelligence," 122
- Wide quotations, 46-7, 118
- x d, 115-16
Transcriber's Notes:
Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected.
Typographical errors were silently corrected.