BRIGHTER TONE
SHARES IN AUSTRALIA
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, February 2. Assisted by the rise in wool values and the improvement in the overseas metal markets, the Sydney Stock Exchange today was brighter in tone. Many industrial issues hardened, although the turnover was limited. No further drift occurred in metal prices. Banks were slow. Sales.—Colonial Sugar, £46 15s; Associated News, 22s 7£d; pref, 24s 6d; British Tobacco, 50s 3d; Tooheys, 32s 3d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 23s 9d; ditto, New Zealand delivery, 9d. Standard Cement, 19s 3d; Stedman, 15s 3d; General Industries, 20s ljd; Traders' Finance, 24s 6d; Carlton Brewery, 67s 10£d; Huddart, Parker, 44s 3d; Newbold Brick, 345; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 27s 4£d; Sargents, 30s; Peters,' 565; Mangrovite Belting, 17s 9d; Yarra Falls, 38s 9d; Woolworths, second pref, 28s 6d; Victoria, Nyanza, lfjs.; Millaquin Sugar, 37s 9d. Mount Morgan, 9s 9d; Mount Lyell, 31s 6d; ditto, New Zealand delivery, 31s 3d; Rawang, 9s 9d; Broken Hill PropVietary, 635; North Broken, 53s 7Jd; South Broken, 35s lid. ' MELBOURNE, February 2. The investment market responded to the better tone in New York and London, although some irregularity continues. Gold shares were variable. ,Sales.—British Tobacco, 50s 3d; G. J. Coles, 82s 9d; Dunlop-Perdriau, 23s 9d; pref., 38s 3d; Australian Founda-tion-Investment Trust, 6s 2d; Electrolytic Zinc, 48s 3d; pref., 50s 9d. Mount Morgan, 9s 10d; Mount Lyell 31s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 625; North Broken, 53s 9d; South. Broken. 35s 3d; Emperor, 12s 7d; Loloma, 18s 2d.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 12
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243BRIGHTER TONE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 12
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