COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1897, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL .

[PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] London, 17th December.

•Interest payable in May and Novomber. tlnterest payable in January and July. payable in April and October. Tbe English wheat market is quiet and inclined to weakness. The Continental is ohanging a little for the worse ; and the American i* tending downwards. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 50,215,000 bushels. Californian No. 1 milling, for early shipment, 37s 3d ; Russian cargoes (Ghirka), 37s 6d o.i.f . per 4921b ; London quotation for No. 1 hard Duluth, 39s 6d. Sugar, is quiet— German beet, 88deg, 9s lid per owt. ; Java cane, No. 1, D.S., 10s 9d per cwt. Pig iron, Glasgow warrants, No. 1, 45s ljd per ton, f.o.b. in Clyde. The Bradford wool market is dull.

Three months bills 15-16 th per cent. — tl eek. are diai le same souutod at rate as last Price. Variation as compared with last weeV. !f% Imperial Consols L % New South Wales H% New South Wales I % New South Wales i % Victorian '1% Victorian l}% South Australian I % South Australian ' % Queensland ... l\% Queensland ... \ % New Zealand* ... \\% New Zealandt ... t % New Zealand* ... l\% West Australian t % W«st Australian H% Tasmania £ s. d. 112 15 0 121 5 0 108 10 0 103 10 0 112 0 0 106 5 0 110 5 0 100 0 0 112 10 0 106 10 0 116 0 0 109 10 0 101 15 0 107 0 0 Unchanged. 15/- lower. 5/- higher, 5/- lower. Unchanged. 5/- lower, 35/- lower. 30/- lower. 30/- lower. Unchanged. 5/- lower. Unchanged. Unchanged. Unchanged. [110 0 01 [Unchanged.