SHAREMARKET INDICES

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27633, 14 April 1955, Page 17

SHAREMARKET INDICES

NEW YORK’S SHARP RECOVERY Comparative indices are:— London.—Financial Times: Inds. ord. (1936 equals 100; Govt, and gold (1929

OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGES LONDON Australia and New Zealand Bank, sale 335; Commercial Bank oi Australia, buyer 15s, seller 16s; E„ S„ and A. Bank, buyer £5 2s 6d, seller £5 10s; Bank New South Wales, buyer £29 10s, seller £3O 10s; British Tobacco, buyer 20s 6d, seller 29s 6d; Goldsbrough, Mort, buyer 325, seller 345; Dalgety, buyer 9s 9d, seller 10s 9d; National Bank N.Z.. buyer 96s 3d. seller £5 Is 3d; Dalgety. 1/55-70, buyer £93, seller £95; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile, 4 per cent, debentures, buyer £79, seller £Bl, and ordinary stock sale 25s 6d; P. and O. Deferred, middle price, 70s lid. _ Mining Sales.—Broken Hill North, 70s; Broken Hill Pty., 335; New Broken Hill, 35s 3d; Consolidated Zinc, 45s 6d. STOCK SALES TEMUKA (From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, April 13. Values for fat cows eased £4 to £5 a head and fat steers 30s a head in a yarding of 120 offered at Temuka today. Several pens of quality wethers and fat ewes were included in the two races of fat sheep but, on the day, wethers were in over supply and values eased slightly. Fat ewes sold exceptionally welL Tailend lots made up the bulk of the average store sheep entry and, with a few exceptions, values held late rates. Values were:— , x Fat Cattle.—Fat steers: good, £39 to £43 2s 6d; medium. £36 to £3B 17s 6d: light, £3l to £35. Fat wethers: good, £32 to £34 17s 6d; medium, £29 to £3l 17s 6d; light, £25 7s 6d to £2B 17s 6d. Fat cows: good, £2O to £23 17s 6d; medium, £l7 2s 6d to £lB 17s 6d; light, £l3 to £l7. Fat sheep and lambs: prime wethers, 80s Id to 86s Id; light to medium, 74s Id to 78s lOd. Prime ewes, 25s lOd to 40s Id; medium. 28s Id to 33s lOd; light, to 25s Id. Fat lambs: good, 65s to 67s Id; medium, 62s to 64s lOd; light, 58s to 61s lOd. Fat lambs: shorn, 56s to 60s. Store Sheep.—Wether lambs, 40s to 555. F. and F. ewes, 26s to 40s. Ewe lambs, to 60s. Two-tooth ewes, to 955.

equals 100:— Indus, ord Govt. Gold Oct. 20 .. 180.7 195.89 95.79 Nov. 30 .. 177.7 105.10 93.63 Dec. 31 .. 184.0 103.33 95.90 Jan. 31 .. 193.0 101.78 90.59 Feb. 28 .. 182.8 98.77 88.94 March 31 .. 181.9 99.93 87.90 April 5 .. 186.4 99.84 85.96 April 8 .. 187.4 99.84 85.96 April 11: Easter Monday holiday. New York.--Dow Jones (1926 equals 100: Rail Inds. sold Oct. 29 . 117.69 352.14 1.900.000 Nov. 30 . 131.47 386.77 3.440,000 Dec. 31 . 145.86 404.39 3.840.000 Jan. 31 . 144.34 404.39 3.840.000 Feb. 28 . 149.47 411.87 2,620,000 March 31 . 150.32 409.70 3,840.000 April 5 . 151.99 415.90 2,100,000 April 6 . 154.42 416.20 2.330,000 April 11 . 155.03 418.77 2,680,000 April 12 . 157.08 420.94 2,770,000