FINANCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 81, 17 March 1933, Page 9

FINANCE

STERLING EXCHANGES Rugby, March 15. The following quotations of exchange are current to-day compared with those of March 14 and pal :— Far Mar 14 Mar 15 Paris, tr to £ 124.21 87 7-16 87 9-16 N.Y, del. to £ 4.86 J 3.44 J 3.453 Montreal, dol to £ 4.86 J 4.13} 4.13) Brussels, bet. to £ 35.00 24.574 24.64 i Geneva, fr. to £ 25.225 17.75} 17.78 Ast-dam, fl. to £ 12.107 8.52 8.54 Milan, lire to £ 92.46 67} 67) Berlin, mks. to £ 20.43 14.42) 14.47) St’holm. kur. to £ 18.159 18.90 18.90 C’bagen, kur. to £ 18.159 22 7-16 22 7-16 Oslo, knr, to £ 18.159 19.55 19} Vienna, sebgs to £ 34.585 31* 31* Prague, knr. to £ 164.25 116 ■ 116) Hol’fors, inks to £ 193.25 227 227 Madrid, pes. to £ 25.225 40 11-16 40 11-16 Lisbon, esc. to £ 110 110 110 Athene, drach. to £ 375 605 605 Bucharest, lei to £ 813.60 580 585 B. Aires, pto peso 47.62 41 40) Belgrade, din to £ 276.31 252} 255 Rio de J, pto mil 5.899 5 3-8' 5 3-8* M. Video, pto peso 51 — 33 Bombay, p to rup 19 13 13 Shanghai, pto tael — 20 15-32 18 9-16 H. Kong, p to dol — 16 15) Y’hama, p to yen 24.582 15 15 Batavia, gl. to A 12.10 — — •Nominal. THE PRICE OF SILVER Rugby, March 15. Silver is quoted at spot 1/5 9-16 d. and forward 1/5 5-Bd. BASE METAL QUOTATIONS London, March 15. The official London (middle) quotations for to-day compare as follow with those previously cabled: — March 13 March 15

AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE. Sydney, March 16. There was a fairly active market on the Stock Exchange. Prices fluctuated only within narrow limits and the trend of values favoured holders of sound industrial stocks. Commonwealth bonds eased a trifle. Sales.—Bank of New South W'ales £3O, Commercial Bank of Sydney £l5 12/6, Australian Glass 45/6, British tobacco 34/3, ditto (New Zealand delivery) 34/3, British Tobacco (pref) 26/7), Associated News 5/11, ditto (New Zealand delivery) 5/11, Goldsbrough 23/7), Dunlop Perdriau (pref) 32/6, Henry Jones 37/9, Electrolytic Zinc 16/6, Toohey’s (ex dividend) 20/6, Victoria Nyanza 14/-, Broken Hill Proprietary 28/6, South Brokens 45/-, North Brok ens 66/-. Commonwealth Bonds.—l93B £lO/ 16/3, 1911 £lO2 16/3, 1944 £lO3 2/6 1947 £lOl 16/3, 1950 £lOl 10/-, 1953 £lOl 16/3, 1955 102 5/-, 1957’ £lO2 10/-, 1959 £lO2 17/6, 1961 £lOl 15/Melbourne.—Goldsbrough 27/3, Dun lop Perdriau 17/4, Myers 27/3, HeraldWeekly Times 57/6, North Broken.’ 66/3. RALLY ON U.S, ’CHANCE, New York, March 5. Scores of leading shares were swept up from two to more than, eleven dollars higher to-day in a spectacular rally that greeted the resumption of trading on the Stock Exchange.

Copper— £ s. d. £ s. d. Standard spot 29 4 V 28 6 10} Standard fwd. 29 9 H 28 11 10} Electrolytic .. 33 15 0 33 5 0 to 34 5 0 33 10 0 Wire bars 34 o 0 33 10 0 Leal— Spot .... 11 5 0 10 11 3 Forward Spelter11 7 6 10 o 0 Spot ,. .. 15 2 6 14 16 <j Forward .. 15 2 6 14 18 9 TinSpot 150 1 3 148 18 9 Forward 150 13 9 49 13 9 Silver— Standard per oz. 17Jd Fino per oz. .. 19 l-8d 17 9-16d 19d