THE MARKETS.
1 [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received February 3rd. 1.10 p.m. London, February 2. It is reported here that a copper ring is operating extensively in antimony stocks. Received February 3rd, 2 p.m. Adelaide, February 3. The wheat market is dull at 3s 2d; shippers' and farmers' lots, 2s lOd; for export, 3s. Flour, roller made, £815s per ton. Oats, 2s 8d to 2s lOd. Sugar is quiet; prices are firm at last quotations. Received February 3rd, 10.45 p.m. Sydnet, February 3. New Zealand oats at auction fetched 2s to 2s OW. Received February 3rd, 10.15 p.m. London, February 2. The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,800,000 quarters. The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be £13,9.8,000, or £752,000 less'than last week. The proportion of revenue to liabilities is 46 per cent. ' * Received February 4th, 1.30 a.m. London, February 2. At the wool sales 13,000 bales have been offered. Grossbreds and scoured merinos are one halfpenny, and superior greasy is one penny, higher. The market is very firm.
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 6979, 4 February 1888, Page 5
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