OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

PRICES OF METALS. LONDON, May 28. Following are to-day*s quotations on the London metal market, compared with those of Mav 27: — May 27. MaySSPcrton. Per toil- £ s d ii i "oppor. stan.. sp.it . t;i 2 «i 60 7 « Copper, stan.. :; mo* r.S 1-S « 58 6 3 Copper, electrolytic . (J4 o O 64 0 0 65 0 0 66 0 0 CopiK-r, elect.. wire „ a liars 15.1 O 0 66 0 « Lead, soft, «pot .. . 23 1.1 0 -'4 0 0 l.cail. soft, forward . 2:: !:: :• 23 1< J Spelter, spot 22 17 « « 2 Spelter, forward 2:: 2 <: 23 « ' Tin, stan.. spot ... -!'•' 17 ti -'48 1< Jj Tin. stan.. 3 uios. .. IMS 17 t'> -'47 18 J Silver, std.. oz. spot iii.'.-KW ~j? Silver, tine, oz, spot 21 1-VKSd '-*» Quotations for other metals, with lg* week's prices in parentheses, are: t* iron, home trade, £4 1/ (£4 l/) 5 »**£ trade, unquoted; antimony. British. *• (£83): foreign. £58 (£39): molybdenn£2 (£2.): Wolfram, 58 3 (57/)-

COTTON, COPRA, RUBBER, ETC

LONDON. May 29. (Quotations on Mav 22 in parentheses.) Cotton.—Spot. 7.36 d (7.29 d) a lb; J uM delivery, 7.15 d (7.10 d). , „. Rubber.—Para, lid (lid) a lb; pi* ll " tion and smoked, lOd (TO 7-16 d). „^j Jute. —June-Julv shipments, £21 *° (£22 17,61 a ton. - Copra.—June-Julv shipments, °° „i Sea, sun-dried. £15 15/ to London an j Rotterdam (£ls 12 6 a ton); South «* smoked. £15 2/6 to Marseilles and Geno» (£l4 13/); plantation. Rabaul, MW» dried, £16 15/ to London and Rotterf"* (£l6 12/6). Linseed 0i1.—£32 of (£32) a ton. Turpentine.—3B/6 (38/9) a cwt.