FALL IN STOCKS
ON NEW YORK MARKET. PRICES OF GRAIN SOAR. < Cy Telegraph—Press Association--Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. August 23. The increasing tension abroad sent stocks down today cn the worst break since April 8. Grain prices scared. While corn is up three cents, wheat reached a five cent limit at Winnipeg and the American market lifted three cents. Canada is prepared to ship wheat to Britain in the event of war and the wheat pool withdrew offerings from the market. Sugar futures, another prime war commodity, rose several points. Bonds in New York continued to decline. United States Steel bonds are down two cents for a new 1939 low level and industrial stocks on an average. has failed off 3.25 points. Gold losses in Toronto amounted to 20 cents.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390824.2.77
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1939, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
133FALL IN STOCKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1939, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in