Rothschilds found the Exploration Company
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- The House of Rothschild whole source · open book
in 1889 it was relaunched as a joint-stock company with a nominal capital of £300>000, and increasingly it acted as a company promoter (in other words, it floated mining companies on the London stock exchange, charging a fee of 20 per cent on nominal capital).
chapter: ELEVEN - The Risks and Returns of Empire (1885-1902)