OVERSEAS EXCHANGES

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28541, 21 March 1958, Page 15

OVERSEAS EXCHANGES

Sydney Key industrials, oils and uraniums were steady on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Textiles and Commonwealth loans were firm. Metals were weak. , _ Sales.—A.N.Z. Bank, 425; Commercial of Sydney, £24; National, 12s 6d paid. 21s 9d; Bank of N.S.W., £36 10s; Tooth, 50s; A.W.A., Ils 6d; A. Hordern, 23s lOJd; A.C.1., 57s 3d; Bradford Cotton, 36s 7Jd; British Tobacco, 34s 9d; - 8.H.P., 445, and 10s paid, 32s 7£d; Burns, Philp, 68s; Colonial Sugar, £43 ss; D. Jones, 44s 9d; Drug Houses, 33s 3d; Dunlop, 38s 9d; E.Z. Industries, 17s; Email, 7s; Feltex, 26s 4Jd; General Industries, 18s 7Jd; G. J. Coles, 19s IJd; Goldsbrough, Mort, 34s 6d; H. Jones, 61s 3d; N.Z. Forest, 21s 4Jd; Waltons, 18s 9d; Winchcombe, 42s 3d; Woolworths, 20s 3d; Mount Isa, 25s 9d; Ampol Petroleum, 15s 3d; Ampol Exploration, 7s 9d; Associated Oil. 5Jd; Oil Search, 2s 9d; Timor, 4s.

MELBOURNE Prices moved narrowly on the Melbourne tock Exchange in the investment section yesterday, but overall a firmer market undertone was recorded. Trading was maintained at a high level with sales covering a wide selection of stocks. Little interest was displayed in a dull mining section and prices held around steady rates. Consolidated Zinc dropped 9d. Sales.—Commercial of Sydney Bank, £24 ss; General Motors, pref., 6 per cent., 21s Id; G. J. Coles, 19s Id; Myer, 235; Woolworths, 20s 4d; Ampol, 15s 2d, and 2s paid, Ils sd;_ Associated Pulp, 32s 9d; A.C.1., 57s 9d; A.P.M., 28s, and rights, 5s sd, and pref., 6 per cent., 19s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 25s 6d; Bradford, 36s 9d; British Tobacco, 34s 9d; 8.H.P., 44s 4d; Colonial Sugar, £43 10s; Courtaulds, 18s 4d; Dunlop. 38s 6d; E.Z. Industries, 17s; Felt and Textiles, 26s 3d; Gordon and Gotch, 20s; H. Berry, pref. "A,’’ 5 per cent., 13s; H. Jones, 61s; Herald, 28s 6d; Humes, pref. “B,” 7J per cent., 24s 7d; Kauri Timber, 20s 3d; N.Z. Forest, 21s 4d, and pref., 24s 2d; Olympic, 7s 9d, and pref., 6 per cent., 19s lOd; Pa tons, 325; 8.H.P., new, 10s paid, 32s 9d; Broken Hill South, 78s; Consolidated Zinc, 595; Mount Isa. 265; North Broken Hill, £5; United Uranium, 7s lOd; Mount Morgan. 9s: Ampol Exploration, 7s 8d; Oil Search, 2s 7d; Santos, 4s Bd.

London Stock Exchange mining S notations on Wednesday included: roken Hill South, 58s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 34s 4id; Consolidated Zinc, ord., 46s 3d, and pref., 12s 4|d; Mount Isa, 19s IOJd.