counter-rumors

Updated: June 18, 2025

For days, Wall Street had been undergoing one of its periodical fits of jumpiness. There had been rumors and counter-rumors, until finally from the confusion there had soared up like a rocket the one particular stock in which he was most largely interested. He had unloaded that morning, and the result had left him slightly dizzy.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Intrusion of Jimmy