COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. Sy Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. ' LONDON, 16th February. Wheat. — An Australian cargo has been sold for 345. Tin.— On spot £196 ; three months, £191. The market is nervous, fearing fresh manipulation. Americans have bid to £204for cash. , Lead, £12 18s 9d per ton. Bar Bilyer is quoted at 23 13-16 d per ounco standard. (Received February 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 16th February. The American visible supply of wheat'is 73,770,000 bushels. Silver is now quoted at 23 15-16 d per* 'ounce. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, 16th February. Wheat is quiet, and shippers are not operating. Quotations are nominally 3s' -3|d to 3s 4£d. Fk>ur,_ moderate trade at £8 ss. Oats, Ta«manian sparrowbills, 2s, 7d ; giants, 2s 8d ; Algerian milling, 2s sd ; •feed, 2s 3d. Barley, Cape, 2s 6d. Bran,. £4 ss. Pollard, £4 10s. Maize, 2k 6d toi 2s 9d. Onions, £6. Potatoes, £5 10s to£7. Butter, 90s. Bacon, 7d. Cheese, 6d. - MELBOURNE, 16th February. Wheat. — Spot business is con fined to bleached grain, which is 'quoted to 3s l^d, ex store, direct from the country. Considerable purchases are being made at the equivalent of 3s 4gd, delivered alongside. Flour, £8 IBs. Oats, milling, Algerians, 2s ; feed, Is 11W. Barley, malting Chevalier, 4s 7^d; Cape, 2s 4d. Maize, 2s sd. Bran and pollard, £4 15s. Onions, £3 10s. Potatoes, £4 10s to £5. ADELAIDE, 16th February. Wheat is quoted nominally at 3s 4d. Flour, £8 2s 6d. Bran, 12^d. Pollard, 12d. Oats, Algerian, 2s lOd. MELBOURNE HIDES MARKET. MELBOURNE, 16th February. Hides are in fair supply, and prices are firm and unchanged.