RAW^ MATERIALS,
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, December 31. The commodity markets have improved. Tin and rubber are stronger, owing to American buying. Bradford correspondents encouragingly survey wool prospects for 1939. Friday's closing prices for the following raw materials were as follows, those for December 23 being shown in parentheses:— Cotton.—Liverpool quotation, good American middling, spot, 5.25 d a lb (5.24 d a lb); February delivery, 4.90 d (4.88 d). Rubber.—Para, 7d a lb (same); plantation smoked ribbed sheet, BJd a lb (8 l-8d). Jute.—December-January shipment, Indian jute, Dundee quotation, £19 12s 6d a ton (£l9 7s 6d). Copra.—December-January shipment, sun-dried South Sea, to London or Rotterdam, £9 7s 6d a ton (£9 10s); smoked, to Marseilles or Genoa, £9 7s 6d a ton (£9 10s); plantation, Rabaul, to London (or Rotterdam), £10 2s 6d a ton (£lO ss). Linseed 0i1.—£25 10s a ton (same). Turpentine.—33s 6d a cwt (same).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 12
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150RAW^ MATERIALS, Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 12
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