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Roode, Sacharias, 25 shareholders, precompanies pay out to,
Rosecrans, Haermen, 55, 79 44
Roshuijsen, 144 share prices. See VOC share price
Rost, Meindert, 171 share register: of Amsterdam chamber,
Rotgans, Jan Hendricksz, 55; van Balck 11, 18, 23, 25; of Enkhuizen and
transaction with, 91–92; fraudulent Rotterdam chambers, 9
share and, 91; as genuine buyer, 90– shares: as collateral, 175–83; collateral
94; as le Maire’s syndicate member, loans for, 176–77; overvaluation
93–94 of, 61; ownership of, 99; of smaller
Rotterdam chamber, of VOC, 9, 12, 155 VOC chambers, 155–56; States
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts General permission to issue, 241;
and Sciences, 191 taxes on, 147; traders’ refusal to
Royal Picture Gallery, 128 accept, 5; of VOC, standardization
Ruyter, Michiel de, 165 of, 108–11
share traders’ clubs. See trading clubs
Salvador, Abraham: default on loan, share trading: Confusión de confusiones
180; secured loan of, 179–80 on, 2, 3–4, 233; of Dias Henriques,
Schelling, Pieter Sijmonsz van der, 87 162; by directors, 63, 89, 110, 153,
Scholes, Merton, 190 240; locations, 18–21, 27–31, 30,
Second Anglo-Dutch Naval War, 165 103–8, 106; negative impact on Dutch
Second West India Company, 240 Republic, 238–39; by Portuguese
secured loans: of C. van Beuningen, 225; Jews, 124–25, 132–40; regulations,
as investment instrument, 178; official 66, 94, 99, 117, 147, 169, 217, 219;
procedure for, 181; of Salvador, 179– in shares of smaller VOC chambers,
80. See also collateral loans 155–56; techniques, 229–31
Securities and Exchange Commission, share trading, early, 35–50; aldermen’s
U.S., 66 court, Supreme Court of Holland,
Semach Ferro, Isaac, 158, 159 Supreme Court of the Republic
Semeij, Dirck, 85, 109; forward development of, 99; commission, 35,
contract of, 59, 82; lawsuit against 37; dividend paid in spice, 44–50;
de Meijere, 83–84 l’Empereur and, 35–37; inadequate
Seulijns, Willem, 101 information, 37–43
Shakespeare, William, 130–31 short selling, 61, 278; prohibition,
share capital, of Amsterdam chamber, during 2008 financial crisis, 66. See
12, 17, 27, 38, 86, 88, 125, 127, 164 also naked short selling
share collateral, 175–83, 278 Silva, Mozes da, 165
shareholder protests, 51–74, 63–65; of Smeth, Raymond de, 220–21
1613, 69; pamphlets use in, 71–76, Sotto, Abraham del, 148
154 South Sea Bubble (1720), 242–44
shareholders, of VOC: anger of, 51–74; South Sea Company, 242
battle with pamphlets, 71–76, 154; Spain, 37–38, 128; Dutch Republic truce
chief participants as, 75; deferred with, 39, 40; war with, 127, 240
dividend to, 153; dissatisfaction speculation: in Dutch Republic, 115–16;
of, 240; dividend payment to, 47; gambling with leverage, 196–201; of
lack of formal rights of, 65; long Jewish traders, 140–42; price of risk,
term investment by, 192; military 187–91, 208; stock market boom
operations protest by, 69–71; policy and, 121; in trading clubs, 172; in
setting by, 13 tulip bulbs, 116–21, 209–10; in
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