OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 309, 31 December 1930, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

PRICES FOR METALS,

LONDON, December 29 ' The following are the London prices for ■ metals, with the figures for December 22 in parentheses: — '

Copper .-Spot, £47 13/1% (£47 5/); three months, £47 8/9 (£46 18/9). Electrolytic Copper.—Spot, £50 10/ (£49); three months, £51 (£SO). Wire Bars—£sl (£50): Lead.—Spot, £15 1/3 (£15); three months, £15 (£ls). . Spelter.—Spot, £13 12/6 (£l3 three months, £14 1/3 (£l4 3/9). Tin.—Spot; £117 6/3 (£ll4 3/9); three months, £118 15/ (£lls 12/6). Silver—Standard, 14% d (15 l-16d) 'per oz; fine, 15 13-16 d (lQYid).

(British Official Wirelese.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, December 30. Silvers-Spot, 14% d; forward, 14 7-lGd

PRODUCE REPORT.

CHEESE PROSPECTS GOOD

Messrs. Norden and Company, Limited, state that a cable received, to-day from their principals, Messrs. R. and W. Davidson, Ltd., advises as follows: — Butter.—Salted, 114/ to 116/; unsalted, 112/ to 118/. The market is steady. Cheese.—White, 60/ to 62/; coloured, 59/ to 61/. There are prospects of higher prices.

WHEAT LOWEH.

MARKET CLOSESx FIRMER

{Received 1 p.m.)

LONDON, December 30.

Wheat cargoes are dull in sympathy with North American prices. On the Argentine Exchange quotations are lower, and parcels are in small demand at 6d and 1/ down. The market closed steadier-

Wheat, ex City of Adelaide, sold for 24/6 a quarter. Grain shipped from West Australia by an unnamed vessel sold in Italy at 25/. Futures.—London: December, 19/; February, 19/3. Liverpool: March, 4/2; May, 4/3 1-8; July, 4/4 1-8.

CHICAGO WHEAT PRICES,

(Received 11 a.m.)

CHICAGO, December 30,

Wheat for delivery in December is quoted in Chicago at 77 cents per bushel; for March delivery, 80V6; for May, 80%; and for July, 62%.