Middleman faces stock market risk THFHERALD Wrdaeid Bringing Hocks and bonds to market become a dangerous business for the middlemen Stockbrokers and Investment dealers are losing hundreds of of dollars Investment dealers buy new Issues of a company stocks or bonds to sell to their clients who may be bis financial institutions in vestment funds or people like you and me The dealers expect to do this at a profit Since the October stock market crash profits from this business have been hard to come by Each day brings another report of how much the dealers are suffering One deal alone British Petroleum has eaten up a big chunk of the capital of three Canadian dealers prompting people to wonder bow healthy Ihey are HP BOMB The ssue could cost Wood Gundy up to million before tax It could cost Dominion Securities and MeLcod Young Weir that much between the two oi them How much the companies lose depends on how much the slock price falls over the next month or so In the United States too the issue bit a big chunk out of the capital of Salomon Brothers Goldman Sachs and Shearson Lehman To gel the dealers to go through with the deal the British govern agreed to step in and buy the stock if it fell to a certain price This could happen The British government owned in the first place It add the com to the public to raise money Now It may have to turn around and buy it back again Your Business So it no wonder that when the people who plan to build a tunnel under English Cltanncl came looking for money the Canadian dealers turned thumbs down Wood Gundy Dominion Sccuriiles and Young Weir determined that Canadian Investors were not eager to sink their money into a hole In the ground no how glamorous or historic the project This is not the builders of the Eurotunnel expected In September Morton cochairman of the builders group said the tunnel was ghtupourollev This Is the sort of ng Canadian investors will understand he said This Is because of our experience with pipelines property develop ment and mining or Just holes In the ground he added His theory It seems was full of holes This crisis In he market is more serious than meets the eye When brokers are left holding the bag of unwanted stock it is just a matter of time before bankers are left holding a bag of bad loans to If the stock market plunges again the world financial system apart In the end central bankers hence government could be forced to bail everyone out with our money STOCK KEEPS COMING Yet the stock keeps coming in Japan the country telephone com pany dumped of dollars of new stock on the market In Tokyo LI KaShing the Hong tycoon who is taking Canada by storm dumped nearly billion of new stock on the jittery Hong Kong market Hong Kong bankers are no doubt worried They could force the brokers to dump the shares on the market to get the money to repay their loans If this happens the share prices will Tall even further It vicious circle The financial panic of and the depression that followed was 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