STOCK EXCHANGE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1932, Page 5

STOCK EXCHANGE

BUYING IN SYDNEY. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, January 12. There was considerable activity in consolidated loans on the Stock Exchange to-day. The. ew. s a slightly weaker market.

The four per cent. 1938 stock receded to £95 2s (id; the 1941 four per cents, to £94 lls 3d and the 1947 four per cents to £94 2s Gd.

Irregularity also prevailed in regard to other issues, hut buyers were ever ready to snap up anything a Lit low.

Bank shares showed little appreciable change. There were sales of Hank of New South Wales at £3O 12s Gd; Commercial Bank of Australia at 10s 4‘d ; National Bank of Australia (fully paid), at £l2 17s Gd ; and Queensland National Bank at 120 s.

Now Zealand 5.1 per cent, debentures realised £112; C louini Sugar Coy., shares £45; Goldsbrough Molds. 27s Dd ; Australian Gaslight A. shares 110 s; Burns Philip 395; British Tobacco 80s Gd; Toot’s Brewery 275; Broken Hill Proprietary seven per cent, debentures £lO2 os; Broken Hill, South 4Gs Gd ; and Zinc Corporation, prefeirential 13s 9d. WEAK NOTE AT LONDON. RUGBY, January 12. The Stock Exchange at London opened to-day with a weakness which was especially noticeable in the foreign bonds section, whore German loans suffered a setback. German seven per cent, relapsed by nearly three points at sixty-six and a-half, and German five and a-half per cents, were two points lower at fifty-one’.