COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph. — Press Associations-Copyright. LONDON, 3rd February. METALS. Copper. — On the spot, £59 15a per ton; three months, £60 12s 6d. Tin.— On tho spot, £J. 48 per ton; three months, £149 12s 6d. Lead. — Soft foreign, £13 8s 9cl per ton. (Received February 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd February. Bar silver is quoted at 23Jd per ounce. WHEAT. The American visible supply of wheat east of the Rocky Mountains v 3v 3 estimated by "Bradstreet's" at 54,694,000 bushels, compared with 54,459,000 bushels last week and 75,781,000 bushels a year ago. AUSTRALLAN~PRODUCE. SYDNEY*, 3rd February. Wheat, 4s 2d j flour, £10 10s ; oats, Algerian feeding 2a 2d to 2s 4d, milling 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; barley, Cape 3s to 3s 3d; maize, 4s 2d, South African 3s lOd to 3s lid; bran, £4 ss; pollard, £4 10s; potatoes, Tasmanians £5; onions, Victorian £4 ss; butter, 98s to 100s; cheese, 6d to 7d; bacon, 7Jd to Bid. MELBOURNE, 3rd February. Wheat, 4s 3d; flour, £10 ss; oats, Algerian 2s Id; barley, English 4s, Cape 2s 8d to 2s 9d, feeding 2s Id; maize, 3s sd; bran, £4 12s 6d; pollard, £5; onions, £3 10s; potatoes, £2 12s 6d. ADELAIDE, 3rd February. Wheat, 4s 3d; flour, £9 10s; bran, 12id; pollard, 13id. MELBOURNE HIDE SALES. MELBOURNE, 3rd February. At the hide sales to-day supplies wore small and competition keen, prices keepIng very firm.