OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1934, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

THE PRICE OF GOLD. £6 16/5 PER OUNCE. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 21. Gold is quoted at £6 16/5 per ounce SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, February 21. At the Sydney wool sales to-dnv 12,1(X bales wove offered and 10,073 were sold Also 2162 bales were sold privately. The market was unchanged, competition coming principally from the Continent and Japan, with moderate Yorkshire support Greasy Merino sold to .28Vsd. PRICES OF METALS. LONDON, February 20. Following are to-day's quotations on the London metal market, compared with those of February 19:— Fob. 20. Feb. 19. I'er ton. Per ton. £ s. <1. t: s. d. Copper, stan.. spot 32 14 4J 82 5 7J Copper, stan., 8 mos. 3-18 1J 32 0 1} •Copper, electrolytic 30 0 0 35 0 0 to to 3G 10 0 83 10 0 jCopper, elec., wire bars 86 10 0 30 10 0 Lead, soft, spot .. 11 15 0 11 12 li I.ead. soft, forward 12 . 0 0 11 17 ti Spelter, spot 14 15 0 14 1.2 0 Spelter, forward .. 15 0 0 10 0 0 Tin. staii.. spot .. . 220 11 3 220 3 SI Tin. stan., 3 mos. . 22G 7 C 225 IS 9 •American, 8 cents a lb, same aB on February 1 ft. tßest selected, £30 2/0. CHICAGO WHEAT VALUES. (Received 1.30 p.m.) CHICAGO, February 21. Wheat for delivery in May is quoted at 88% cents per bushel, for delivery in July at 86% cents and for September 87*/4 cents. DAIRY PRODUCE. Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Company have received the following cable from their London principals. Messrs. TrengroußC and Nathan, Tooley Street, dated February 21:—Butter, 73/ per ewt. Quiet. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile [ Agency has received the following cable from its London office: —Butter: New Zealand, 72/ per cwt. Cheese: White, 44/ per cwt; coloured, 46/6 to 47/. Market firm and quiet.