OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 15 May 1926, Page 6

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

THE LONDON MARKETS. LONDON, May 13. CONSOLS AND COLONIAL STOCKS. The following table gives quotations f /or consols and colonial inscribed stocks, co capered with those of May 6: — Price. Variaf Jon.

THE METAL MARKET. • (Quotations on May 10 in parentnesi ie \ .Copper.—Spot, £56 13/9 three months, £57 13/9 (£57 8/9). Lead.—Spot, £28 5/ (£27 7/6); th fee months, £28 13/9 (£27 16/3). - Spelter.—Spot, £32 (£3l - 17/6) ; thi f ee months, £32 6/3 (£32 3/9). Tin.—Spot, £274 7/6- (£269- 17/6 I; three months, £269 12/6 (£,264 2/6). • : Silver.---Stanaard, 30 l-16d (30 7-16 d).; ' nne r 32 7-16 d (325 d). j

WHEAT. The wheat market is quiet. Quotations are from 58/6 •to 60/, and occasionally ■ lower. Parcels are in moderate request h Australians are at late rates, and, other g are easier. Liverpool futures are quote (j as follows:—May, - 11/10 per centa iJuly, 11/6; October, 10/7. The , spot trai l e is stagnant, and prices are nominal. Au j, tralian, ex ship, is quoted at 64/. WOOL. The Bradford wool market Is nrm, bu-* very little business is being: • transacted,",, pending , a return of normal services.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) FOREIGN EXCHANGES. Foreign exchanges on London to-day, compared with rates previously quoted:—

DAIRY PRODUCE. STRIKE PRIQES CONTINUE. LONDON; May 13 The maximum prices fixed Tor butter and cheese at the' beginning-' or the Rtrivo will continue in roree until further notice There was a jood trade on Monday' Tuesday, and Wednesday, when voluntary labourers handled large quantities cmc! ontly, but to-day there was but > utti« demand. ■ Twenty-four lorry. loads of dairy produce were convoyed to Covent Garden to. day.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) MELBOUKE PRODUCE.

MELBOURNE, May M; Following- ■were to-day's quotations on the Melbourne produce market:— Wheat. —Quiet, 6/5. Oats.—Milling. 3/8 to 3/9; sellers to 3/10; reed. 3/ to 3/3. Barley.—English, i/ to 4/6; Cape. 3/9 to i/. potatoes;— em 10/ to £11 10/ per ton. Onions. —£20 to tSi per ton.—{A. and N.Z. Cabled..

£ b. d. Consols, 2J per cent ... 54 15 0 British 3i War Loan .. 97 12 6 British 5 War Loan .. 100 0 0 Conversion Loan, 3J .. 74 17 6 Com'wealth 51, 1922-27 99 10 0 Com'wealth 6, 1931-41 .. 103 0 ,0 New Zealand 4, 1929 .. 95 15 0 New Zealand 3A, 1940 .. 84 5 0 New Zealand 3, 1945 .. 74 10 0 New Zealand 6, 1936-51 107 10 O f Higher. • Lower. s. d. " 6t 7 6t 16 Si»" 57 Iβ" i » g" ime in ■ ln,e I" Of

May 13. May 10. Par. Montreal (dol. to £) 4.86 4.84J 4.866 New York (dol. to . £) 4.86Vw 4.85Vi« 4.866 Brussels (fr. to £) 154.62 157.13 25.225 Paris (fr. to £)) .. 154,75 155.13 25,225 Stockholm (kr. to £) 18.17 18.14 18.159 Oslo (kr. to £) .. 22.49 22.53 18.159 Copenhagen (kr. to £) : . 18.58- 1&60- 18.150 Berlin (r.m. to £)• 20.44 20.38 20.43 Amsterdam (florin to £) 12.09}, 12,08 12.107 Batavia (florin to £) 12.07J 12.06S 12.107 Calcutta (pence to rupee) 17»Vw 18 f24 Yokohama (pence IT t0 yen) 23«/ie 23Vm 24.58. Uongkonc (pence to dol.) 26} 27i • All quotations are for cable transfers. • Determined on the price of silver. B ote°r e n i g n th LoW S >! 8 ° £ 10 TUP^B tO °™