BONDS VERY FIRM

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 12

BONDS VERY FIRM

AUSTRALIAN INVESTMENTS

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—copyright.)

- SYDNEY, January 21. Only minor fluctuations in prices were noted in all departments on the Sydney Stock Exchange today. _ . Sales—Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £20 17s; Commercial Bank of Australia, 17s 3d; National Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £7 3s; Bank of New Zealand, 445; Colonial Sugar, £.«> 15s ■ Associated Newspapers, 235; ditto, pref., 24s 6d; Automatic ; Totes, 19s; Huddart Parker, 445; Burns Philp, 575; British Tobacco, 50s 6d; Tooheys, rights, 5s lOd; David Jones, 41s 3d. General Industries, 20s 3d; Felt and Textiles, 38s 4£d; J. McGrath, m 42s; 'Standard Cement, 19s; Perpetual,Trustee, 95s 6d; Victoria rNyanza Sugar, 17s 2d; United Provisions, 7s Id. , Winchcombe Carson, 32s 6dr Henry Jones Co-op.i 50s; Fairymead. Sugar, 35s 9d;. Permewan Wright, 33s lid; Wright Heaton, £7 125.6d; Metropolitan Gas, £13 15s; Woolworth, 25s

Mount Morgan, 10s 2d; Mount Lyell, 32s lOJd; South Broken Hill, 35s "74d; Kuala Kampar,: 19s; Placer Development, 75s 6d. MELBOURNE, January 21. Industrial stocks show little variation. There has'been some profitmaking in gold shares, which have recently been active. Commonwealth bonds are very firm. ■.: ' , ' Sales.—Commercial Bank of Australia, 17s 3d; E.S. and A. Bank, £5 6s;: National Bank, £5 paid, £7 ss; British Tobacco, 50s; Carlton Brewery, 65s 9d; Dunlop Perdriau, 245; Goldsbrough Mort,. 325; Australian Foundation In-, vestment Trust; 6s;-2d. *■ ■■ ' '':

Mount-Morgan, 10s ;ld; Mount'Lyell,; 325,9d; North ;Broken Hill, 565 ; 3d; Em-; perqr, 125,9d; Lolbma, 18s Id; ■: ■ ,\

PRICE OF GOL!>

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) | (Received January 22, 10,a.m.) i ' ' LONDON. January 21. ' The' price of fine gold per ounce, i 139s Bd. • ; s. d. ; January 18 ■..' 139 7+ January 17 139 8£ January 35 139 7J January 14' 139 ' 7 | January 12 139 7J | January 11 139 8 ! January 10 139 9 January 8 139 9| Januarys ............... 139 9 January 5 139 9 January 4 139 6 January 3 ......i........ 139 5 1937. December 31 139 6, July 1 140 6 June 1 140 9 May 1 140 8 :March 1 142 3i-. February 1 ....-.....'..... 142 0J January 4 141 8 DOLLAR AND STERLING (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received January 22, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. Sterling exchange. London on New York, 4.99 13-16. '

Dollars. January 20 4.99 15-16 January 19 .... ."..:. 5.00 _ January 18 - 4.99 5-8 January 17 ..;.... 4.99* January. 15 f.99 "-16 January 14 .' 4.99 1-8 January 12 4.99 7-8 January 11 5-00* January 10 5.00 3-8 January 8 5.00J January 7 5.00 . January 6 .-4.99 15-16 January 5 5.001 • January 4 5.01 3-16 January 3 5.00 5-16 1937. December 30 MS J£*J« December 1 . 4.98 15-16 November 1 f&S 3-8 October 1 4.95 September 1 ..'..... 4.96 7-10 n/riv 1 4.94 Kli 4.98 5-16 Marcb r:::::::: .4.88 u-w;

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 20. The Stock Exchange is quiet.

JAVA EXCHANGE.

(Bv TeleKraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received January ' 22,. 10 a.m.) BAT AVI A,' January '21. Sterling exchange, 8.95 guilders to

• The rate on January -20 was the same J