MONEY AND MARKETS

Evening Star, Issue 11642, 31 August 1901, Page 6

MONEY AND MARKETS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 30. (Received August 30, at 9.42 p.m.) The Bank of England returns show the stock of gold coin and bullion to be £37,356,000; reserve, £27,466,000. The proportion of reserve to liability is 53.40. The note circulation totals £29,719,000; public deposits, £9,246,000; other deposits £42,014,000; Government £16,389,000; other securities, £25,650,000. Three months' bills are discounted at 2 3-16 per cent. Consols are quoted at £94 7s 6d. , Quotations for colonial Government stbckf are subjoined, compared with those ruling at the close of last week:— Aug. 23. Aug. 30. New South Wales 4's 113 11% New South Wales 3£'s 102 1021 New South Wales 3's ... ~ 99 994 Victoria 4's ... „. _. ... HI m Victoria 3£'s „ 105£ 106 Victoria, 3*B 98 98 South Australia. 3i's „ 105 105 South Australia 3's „. 93 93 Queensland 4's „ ... 107£ 107 A Queensland 3£'s ... 102 102 New Zealand 4's ... ... ._ 115 115 New Zealand 3i's ... ._ ... 108 108 New Zealand 3's „. „. ... 99 99 Tasmanian 3£'s ...' ... .„ ._ 104 104 Westralian 3£'s „. 100 s l 100J Wheat: The markets are dull, and there is an easier. tendency; America's forcing sales have lowered values 6d; cargoes are steady; a South Australian and Victorian September-October shipment sold at 29s 6d; New South Wales August shipment, Sugar quiet: German, 8s 3d; first marks, 10s 7id. Copper nominal: Spot, £66 12s 6d; three months, £67Tin, very firm: Spot, £llß 2s 6d; three months, £ll9 ss. Pig iron, 54s 7^d. Lead, £ll- 15s; spelter, £l7 Is 3d.. The Bradford wool market is slow. Common sixties, 184 d; super, 19d.