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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 266, 11 November 1901, Page 3

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LONDON MARfefiTS. PER PREMM ASSOCIATION.] London, November 7. Copper, spot, £66 15s; three mouths, L 64 17b 6d. Lead, Lll 10s. Consols are quoted to 90§. The fall in the latter is due to the combined influence of Sir Michael HicksBeach's intimation of a new issue, the' heavy contango rates on the reported sale o£ half a million of stock to put at option, and the decline on the Paris Bourse owing to Admiral CaillarJ'a demonstration. London, November 8. Bank of England returns for the week:— Stock of gold coin and bullion, £3!,893,000; reserve, £23,100,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities, 46.44 per cent.; notes in circulation, £29,858,000; public doptisits, £7,622,000; other deposits, £41.952,000; (kvehimeht securities, £17,523,000; other (gftlritiea, £26,822,000. OonsoJs, 91£. Three . months' bills are discounted at 2 per cent The following are the quotations for Colonial Government securities:—Victorian 4 per cents., Ill; 3 per cents., 104. New South Wales, 4 per cents., 114; 8£ per cents, 102}; 3 per cents, 99 j. South Australian, 3J per cents., 105; 3 per cents, 93. Queensland 4 per cents., 107; 3J per cents., 102; 3. per cents, 91} New Zealand 4 per cents., 112; 3J per cents, 108; 3 per cents., 97. Tasmanian 3J per cents., 104. Westralian, 3J per cents., 102}. The wheat ma-kets are all firmer in sympathy with a rise in America. Cargoes strong; Victorian and South Australia November shipment, 29s 6d. The American visible supply of wheat is 64,616,000 bushels. Tin, spot. L 107155. Lead, Lll 8s 9d. The butter market is weaker, nominally 112s; Danish flat at 1265. The Board of Trade returns for October show thnt imports decr?a3ed £4,144,095 and i exports £749,294 as compired with October, 1900. | Received 9, 4.45 p.m. London, November 8. Pig-iron 655. Silver, 2s 23-8 d per oz. i Buear, quiet. German, 7s lid; first mark, 18s 3d. At Brad fori the wool marked is improving. Common sixties, 18 Jd; super, 19Jd.