OVERSEAS MARKETS.
PRICES OF METALS. LONDON MARKET FIRM. LONDON, August 4. Following are to-day's quotations on the London metal market, compared with those of July 30:— Aug. 4. July 30. Per ton. Per ton. £ s. d. £ s. d. Copper, Stall., spot 3S 1 101 37 13 11 Copper, stan., 3 nios. 38 fi 101 37 18 11 Copper, electrolytic 42 0 O 41 10 0 to to 42 10 0 42 0 0 Copper, elec., wire bars 42 10 0 42 0 0 Lead, soft, spot ..16 6 3 16 5 0 Dead, soft, forward 16 SO 16 3 0 Spelter, spot 13 17 6 13 17 6 Spelter, forward 14 2 6 14 0 0 Tin, stan., spot . . 185 7 6 185 10 0 Tin, stall., 3 nios. 1812 7 6 182 2 6 WORLD'S MAIZE CROP. CHICAGO, August 4. Market experts predict that the world's maize crop will be 900,000.000 bushels below normal. It is estimated that America will produce 1,572,000,000 bushels, compared with 2,352,000,000 in 1935. The crop is declining at a rate of 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 bushels a clay as the result of the drought. WHEAT IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, August 5. The wheat market to-day was firmer by i.,iother halfpenny a bushel for silo grain, bringing it to 4/9 bagged and nominally 5/1 ;i bushel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 185, 6 August 1936, Page 4
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