METAL PRICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 9

METAL PRICES

MARKET AT HOME LONDON, Friday. (Quotations on December 31 are given in parentheses.) Copper.—Spot, £7l 8s 9d (£67 ss); three months, £7O Is 3d (£66 16s 10Jd). Electrolytic Copper.—Spot, £B3 ( £S2 10s); three months, £BS 15s (£S3 10s). Wire Bars.— £B3 15s (£B3 10s). Lead.—Spot, £2l 8s 9d (£2l 13s 9d); three months, £2l 10s (£2l 10s). Spelter.—Spot, £l9 15s (£l9 16s lOJd); three months, £2O 7s 6d (£2O 7s 6d). Tin.—Spot, £IBO 6s 3d (£173 Ss 9d>; three months. £lB3 13s 9d (£l7B 13s 9d). Silver.—Standard, 21 5-Sd (21 5-16 d an or); fine, 23 3-Sd (23d). TIN Tin.—Visible supply, 27.926 tons; soot, 1,778 tons; afloat, 2,460 tons; deliveries, 2,690 tons. WHEAT AND FLOUR Wheat.—Cargoes are Arm following upon good inquiry and prices have advanced 3d to 9d. Futures: London, January. 51s 3d a quarter : March, 525. Liverpool: March, 9s 11 7-8 d a cental: May, 10s ljd: July, 10s 1 7-Sd. Spot trade dull. Australian, ex store, 36s 6d. Oats.—Dull. Peas and Beans.—Quiet. Beet Sugar.—February, 6s 9Jd. BRADFORD TOPS The Bradford tops market is quiet and business is very slow pending the reorganisation of the colonial markets. Quotations are: 65’s, 2s 7d a lb: 60’s, 2s sd: 56’s, 2s 03d; 50 s, Is 9d; 46 s, Is 6d; 40’s, Is s}d. BUTTER AND CHEESE The Auckland agents of Andrew Clement and Sons, Limited, London, have received the following advice by cablegram:—Butter and cheese markets depressed. Butter, 156 s to 158 s; cheese, 85s to 87s. The London house of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, cabled on January 1 as follows: Choicest salted New Zealand butter, 161 s and 1625; New Zealand white cheese. 87s and 88s; New Zealand coloured cheese, 85s. Markets quiet.