COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1919, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn Copyright. Received Dec. 8, 9.50 p.m. Loudon, Dec. 5. Copper £lOl 2s Gel and £lO2 12s 6d, electrolytic ingots £IOB, wire bars £llO, best selected copper £IOB 10s. ' Lend, £4O 2s 8d and £4O ss. Speller, £sl I.ls :md £52 ss. Tin, £2OB 12s lid mid £3OO 2s Sd. Silver, 78(Lper ounce. Received Doc. 9, 11 p.m. Loudon, Dec. 7. P. and O. shares £O4O to £660. The New Zealand ioan and Mercantile has, after placing £2s,(ft)o to the reserve fund, £IO,OOO for premises, £IO,OOO to. the staff, and carrying forward £20,746. At the wool sales there was a small selection of merinos on first and full lato rales; a splendid selection of crossbreds, medium and flue unchanged, low rather irregular, slipcs and scoureds firm. At Bradford, merinos and hue crossbreds are very firm, medium and low slightly in buyers' favor. The Pood Ministry is raising the retail price of cheese 2d per pound from the lCth. lust. Wheat —yirm, fair business. Flour steady. Oats, Aran. Peas and Beans.—Slow, with an Basilar tendency. Sugar, unchanged. The Advisory Committed of the Pood Ministry has passed a resolution recommending the removal of the control of apples. Copper, £lOl 12s 6d to £lO3 ss, electrolytic Ingots £llO, wire bars £lll. Load, £4O 10s to £4O 12s Gd. Spelter, £53 7s 6d to £SS 17s Cd. Tin, £304 7s Cd to £305 12s 6d. Silver, 81% d per ounce. The NZ. Loan and Mercantile hare received tho following cablegram from their London house under date December 3, 1919: Tallow. No sale; small demand. Market steady.

THE PRICE OP PETROL.

Received Dec. 8, 7.30 p.m. _. New York, Dec. 8. The patrol sricej! *r« uushasged.