OFFICIAL LIST is the name given to a list of prices of English and foreign stocks, shares, and other securities, officially recognised on the London Stock Exchange. It is published daily, under the authority of the com. mittee, and is a record of the prices at which business has been done between the hours of 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. No member of the Stock Exchange can publish and sell a list of prices without the sanction of the committee. The prices of all bargains may be quoted in the official list. But no price will be inserted unless the bargain has been made in the Stock Exchange between members at the market price ; nor on the authority of one of them if he refuse, when required by a member of the committee, to give up the name of the member with whom he has dealt. A price in the official list cannot be expunged without the authority of the chairman, deputy-chairnian, or two members of the committee. Bargains at special prices, by reason of their exceptional amounts, are only quoted with distinguishing marks. Bargains in English stock for the next transfer day, or in foreign or other stocks for the following day, may be marked in the list. So also may bargains in all stocks made during the " shutting" for the opening, and in foreign bonds, with or without overdue coupons. During the shutting. means during the
hours--3 P.M. tO 11 A.M.-of the official closing of the Exchange ; the term " opening" referring to the hour at which the Exchange officially opens. Omnium can be quoted in the official list for the issue of the receipts, for money, and for the next succeeding payment.
Quotatiorts.—Dealings in English stock (except bank stock), and in India stocks, for any day subsequent to the striking of the balances of the stock for dividend, are always ex dividend, and are quoted accordingly. Bargains in transferable shares or stock are quoted ex interest fron: the beginning of the account in which the interest becomes payable. They are quoted ex dividend from the beginning of the account following that in which the dividend has been declared, provided the tlividend is made payable to the holders then registered ; but in case of a subsequent shutting of a company's books for payment of the dividend, then from the beginning of the account following that in which the shutting occurs. Bargains in securities to bearers are quoted ex dividend on the day when the dividend is payable ; and shares in foreign railways are quoted, w hen practicable, ex dividend or ex interest at a period in accordance with the practice of foreiga bourses. Sce STOCK EXCHANGE.