COMMODITY PRICES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 14

COMMODITY PRICES

Movements During November The general index number of export prices for the month of November was 968 (on the bases: average prices ruling during 1909-13 equals 1090), a decrease of 7.1 per cent, since October. The fad in the general index is accounted for a - most wholly by a severe drop in the index number for wool, this index falling from 1041 in October to 734 in November. •> decline of 29.5 per cent. The general index number of wholesale prices for November was 1340 (on the base: average wholesale prices ruling during 1909-13 equals 10G01. an increase of 2 points over the figure for the preceding month. The index number of prices of locally produced commodities fell by J point since October, while that tor imported commodities rose by 6 points. The all-groups index number of retail prices rose by 4 points since October, the November index being 29 per cent, above that, for 1914. The three-monthly collection of stat’stici of clothing, drapery and footwear prices and of prices of m - » cellnneous items of household expend: ture was taken in November. The Dominion index number for the former group has risen by 0 4 per cent, since August, while the latter remains uncharged. The index number of share prices on the last trading day in November was 1009 (on the base: average share prices during 1923 equals 1000). an increase of 5 points on that for October. / English Wheat Markets Bv Telegraph.—Press As-it.—Copyright. Ijondon, December 27. Wheat cargoes to-day were quietly steady and parcels were quiet. Futures: London, February. 20/3 a quarter; April, 20/10; June, 21/2. Liverpool: December, 4/81 o cental; March, 4/117-8; May, 5/2 1-8; July, 5/3 3-8.