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The article reviews the performances and trends of U.S. currency, stocks and corporate bonds. The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its bill-buying rate to widen the spread between London and Berlin money rates as a measure to address the glut in French funds and gold. U.S. stocks declined to new lows that analysts predicted to be the market bottom. Bonds also suffered from general weakness despite weakening in interest rates and new bond offerings.

The article discusses stock price forecasting about stocks traded on stock exchanges in the Untied States. It examines the possibility that stock prices may continue to climb in spite of the presence of tight credit within the country that have increased the interest rates of corporate and government bonds.

The article discusses the U.S. stock market performance as of October 1, 1953. Florida Power & Light has sold 50,000 shares of preferred stocks to insurance companies, which resulted in a lower yield than others that took the competitive route around the same period. The Institute of Life Insurance has reported that over 15 billion dollars of the corporate bonds held by members at the end of 1952 were acquired by direct placement.

The article gives a business outlook for U.S. business as of November 1942. It gives a positive outlook for stocks as against corporate bonds, for employment and for the railroads which it says is more encouraging than at any stage since the 1925 depression. Those on the negative side are the steel industry whose profits are seriously slashed by the compulsory wage advances and rising tax levies and non-ferrous metal industries who have far better in production but not in profits.

The article offers guidance on investment opportunities in the U.S. stock market. An assessment of the stock performance and the prospects for investment in rayon producer Celanese Corp. of America, Housecleaning, Goodyear Tire, automaker Ford of England, and International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. is presented. The conversion provision of the corporate bonds is mentioned.