Indicators

Press, 17 May 1989, Page 38

Indicators

Money rates Rates collected by the Reuters Economic Service in Wellington yesterday were: Call deposits: 13.80 per cent. Commercial bills, 90 days: 13.85 per cent, 90-day bank bills: 13.23 per cent, GSC Nov. 1993: 13.03 per cent. Consumers Price Index The CPI over the last four quarters, calculated by the Department of Statistics: 4.0 Gold and silver Gold prices, in SUS per fine

ounce, from New York (closing mid-rate) and London (3 p.m. fix). Silver spot fix price, Lon-

Metals London, May 15 (settlements in £ a tonne; nickel, aluminium and zinc (SUS a tonne): Copper A, 1692.00; Zinc (special high grade), 1757.00; Lead, 392.00; Aluminium (high grade), 2442.00; Nickel, 14,550; Platinum, 519.90 (SUS a troy ounce). Oils Latest international oil prices (SUS a barrel) include: Brent fut. (June): 18.60/18.70 Dubai traded(June): 15.80/15.90 West Texas int.: 20.57/20.54

N.Z. market May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 16 Rises Falls 22 24 26 17 29 18 30 16 14 39 T’over 9,235,040 10,030,938 12,844,189 7,257,270 19,262,161 Barclays Base 100, January 1 , 1957. May 10 Ind. 1981.10 Min. 177.49 May 11 1978.52 178.59 May 12 1981.94 181.44 May 15 1992.38 183.61 May 16 1984.27 180.70 NZSE Base 1000, July 1, 1986 May 10 Capital 643.96 Gross 726.04 May 11 641.83 723.64 May 12 644.06 726.16 May 15 648.11 730.73 May 16 654.13 727.38

Overseas Australia Rescs Ind. All ord. May 21 761.7 2445.1 1483.1 Apr 18 742.1 2326.6 1422.0 May 12 779.9 2546.2 1536.2 May 15 797.8 2591.2 1565.9 May 16 792.2 2575.7 1556.0 Gold Oil Retail Mar 21 1545.0 580.3 2654.0 Apr 18 1495.8 573.7 2665.4 May 12 1436.2 582.7 2730.7 May 15 1442.0 592.2 2782.3 May 16 1435.0 588.0 2784.3 New York— Dow Jones Ind. Tsp. Utls Mar 20 2262.50 1026.20 182.08 Apr 17 2337.79 1089.59 187.23 May 11 2382.88 1117.08 191.68 May 12 2439.70 1133.73 196.01 May 16 2463.89 1139.07 196.36 Standard and Poor’s NY 500 Comp. Ind. Fin. Mar 20U289.92 334.17 27.01 Apr 17 301.72 348.01 28.22 May 11 306.95 353.48 28.18 May 12 313.84 360.88 28.98

May 16 316.16 363.67 29.26 London.—“Financial Times” FT 30 FT 100 Govt Mar 20 1690.0 2053.6 87.98 Apr 17 1691.0 2053.6 86.58 May 11 1758.7 2110.6 86.54 May 12 1779.1 2135.7 86.76 May 15 1787.2 2149.9 86.83 Asia.—Hong Kong (‘Hang Seng’), Singapore (Shares Index), Tokyo (Av. 25). H.K. S’pore Tokyo Mar 20 3046.73 316.18 31,654.80 Apr 17 3133.98 338.34 33,308.89 May 11 3285.10 348.36 34,081.49 May 12 3278.43 347.79 33,866.33 May 15 3309.64 350.94 33,716.29 Foreign currency Rates quoted by the B.N.Z. yesterday. TT buy TT sell Australia 0.7865 0.7771 Can. 0.7307 0.7189 ECU. 0.5732 0.5611 Fiji 0.9028 0.8861 France 4.0285 3.9493 H. Kong | 4.7837 4.6918

Japan 84.52 82.62 Malaysia 1.6577 1.6266 N’lands 1.3445 1.3172 Singapore 1.2069 1.1813 Sterling 0.3747 0.3680 S.Africa 1.6359 1.6161 Switz. 1.0683 1.0481 U.S.A. 0.6148 0.6043 W. Germ. 1.1934 1.1692 W. Samoa 1.3669 1.3387

don. N.Y. London Silver Mar 20 395.25 396.00 6.15 Apr 17 385.35 385.15 5.79 May 11 379.5Q 378.35 5.64 May 12 377.30 376.50 5.64 May 15 374.50 373.80 5.50