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The article focuses on the failure of the present Mexican situation to upset the markets. Mexican trade was meantime ruined. Paper currency, issued by the de facto Government, fell to 60 per cent discount. In 1861 a tax of 10 per cent on all fortunes exceeding $2,000 was decreed. Two questions always confront the financial markets when a nation goes to war. One is the actual and immediate expenditure involved, and the Government borrowings incidental to them. Even the Boer War, fought by a rich European Power against a remote colonial people, cost England, all told, a million dollars a day, or one thousand millions in all, and it utterly deranged the English financial position.

The article reports on the emergence of Mexico City, Mexico as an international business community due to the interest of many companies to establish their businesses in the area. According to international businessmen, Mexico City is strategic and it is a gateway to the other countries to the south. One local investment counselor explains the advantages of buying shares of U.S. mutual funds that are based in Mexico due to low income taxes in the country.

This section offers world business news briefs as of November 23, 1932. European countries such as Germany, Italy and Switzerland are all pondering war debts. In Latin America, Mexico is expecting to improve its business industry while new provisions for payment on imports were made by Brazil. The Japanese yen exchange is weak and still hovering near 21 cents.