OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

METAL PRICES FIRMER. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. Following are to-day's quotations on the London metal market, compared with those of September 29:—

Quotations for other metals, with last week's prices in parentheses, are:—Pig iron: Home trade, £5 1/ (£5 1/). Antimony: British, £03 (£03): foreign, afloat, £74 (£72 10). Molybdenite: £2 5/6 (£2 5/6) a unit. Wolfram: £5 17/6 (£6 2/6) a unit.

BUTTER AND CHEESE. A. S. Paterson and Company, Limited, quote:—Butter: Market quiet. New Zealand, 127/6; Australia, 127/6: Danish, 139/ (market steady). Cheese: Market steady. White, 70/; coloured, 70/. EGG MARKET SLOW. (Received 11- a.m.) LONDON, September 30. Eggs are slow, with six teens selling at 14/ per 100. fifteens at 13/6, fourteens at 13/ and thirteen ar.d a halfs at 12/3.

Sept. 30. Oct. 1. Per ton. Per ton. £ s. d. £ s. d. Copper, stan.. spot 47 5 7£ 48 19 41 Copper, stan., 3 months 47 5 75 48 18 » Copper, electro. .. S3 O 0 54 0 0 to to 55 0 0 56 0 0 Copper, elec., -wire bara 55 o 0 54? 0 0 I/end, soft, spot . . 19 4 4£ 19 4 4J soft, forw'd 19 3 1J 19 5 71 Spelter, spot 10 1 3 Spelter, forward . 19 1 10J 19 5 7» Tin, stan., spot . . 244 15 O 243 O 0 Tin, stan.. 3 mos. 243 2 6 241 15 0 Silver., stan., oz., *P°t „ 19 13-16d 19 13-16d Silver. line, oz., spot 21Jd 213d