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THE" URINA" MAIL"
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1900,
EXCHANGE
WEEKLY REPORT ØN THE HONGKONG STOCK
London market
meets
MARKET DRIFTS LOWER slight setback
Several stocks hard hit by sliding prices
The
*The share
KK Back Lombard Union Wheelock HK Whart
markét at
glance *
Up or Down
Dividend
& Bonus BIL
Yield (%)
London, Aug. 25.
Britain's gloomy export picture today checked the strong three-day upsurge on the stock eiċ- change. Minus marks dominated the indus trial list although precautionary marking down by dealers failed to bring out many sellers.
Damfled trade #gures for July ended. tillk about
SLT-
July 20
Apgy
Adr.: 11
Aur. 18
Aug. 25
1194x
1193
1190
1160
-$30
42
3.3
贼
36
Job
.915
90
90
$1
$3.00
2.B
7.30
7.85
7.5.
7.4K
altady
3.3
240W
22967
2301
.210
$8
3.F
BK Docks
105
109
.*108
105
DOLG
$314
$10
10.2
Taikoo Docka
50
5414
+4
53
5414
++-$1.50
$2.80
5.3
cut so the mid-day
Provident
20
20
20
19.80
19.00
$1.80
0.1
13K Hblets
4034
MA
4014
104
4036
stoudy
SZ.TK
4.8
a bank rate no change announcement came as no prise.
trend
HK Landa HK Realty
5536
13
5614
-50c
$2.50
4.2
1.725
1.825
130
1978
1.75
12140
7.1
HR Tran
3134
32
3137
200
$2.05
0.0
Star Ferry
-107
170
100b
170
164bxd
30
$9.50
5.8
Yaumalla
174
182
182
180
170
-31
58.53
4.5
Ch Light
2114
22.30
21.90
21.60
21.00
-200
$1.10
0.7
Pitices stondled at the lower lovel, leaving, the blue chips mainly between one and two shillings lower. Most
groups were lostrs on the day. Stores,
1
Electrics
27.60
28.30
28.30
28
27.60
400
$1.70
6.1
shares lost. Hordest,
JK Telephone
3716
3434
3814
SELA
3744
-75
SLITE
4.4
ing
G. I. Cement
6236
B
13
52
7.5
Dairy Farm
27.30
28.30
2814
2834
27.90
800
$1.85
6,8
ZCa
23.40
20.500
25.40
25.80%
steady
$1.50
Lane, Crawford
423.
4134
41
✓ 38sxd
50c
$3.25
8.30
9.10.
9.16
+56
750
1.90
14.900
4 14.800
5.00
3.700
200
$1
14.90%
14.30 xd
900
6.5
8%
3.45
--4a
134
steady
market continued its sour with prices sliding further during the week,
Hard hlt werd Wharves, Docks and the rubber section.
Banks although done in fairly large lois dropped $30 on the week.
Wharven neglected for months were done at $216, a drop of 314 on the week. Buyers were ap
more parently waiting favourable prices.
for
U.S. INVESTMENT
QUOTATIONS
Hongkong Docks which have
over the $100 mark for →been
some ting slumped to $90 with buyers still hestiant.
Talkoo Docks on the other hand went against the trend of the market and showed a gain of $1.5X1.
Uilities remained compani tively steady with only frnctional losses.
Hotels and Lands managed to keep within a fraction of last week's prices with interest stifl maintaining.
In stores buyers appeared Interested in Dalries at lower levels while Waisons and Lane, Crawford
neglecter! 31
were
The following are U.S. Invest-sellers raten. mments
The cotton section met little in American dollars. I Buyer's prices include cominis support during the week. sion:
Amiato Fund
Markét diary
The market was a
shade
al- casier though there was slight increase in volume of business. Buainess transacted amounted $1,965,000.
Sellers BuyKTS
7.32 7.D7
Am B Sh
134
Friday: 4.53
Alom Dev Atu!
408
5.44
Budkick Fund
12.00
13 M
Are Hought
0.55
9.ng
Cada den Fund ..
13.00
-1-43
Canadian Fu
1.15
17.40
Canation int
Growth
10.3
1:2
Comwith Stock
13.83
10.19
Dividend Sh
2.00
327
Dreyfun Fundl
15 00
1000
Faton & Stock
12.02
14.33
Monday:
Electronics In
7.00
0.31
Found Mut Fund
10.72
11.00
Fund Invest
D.10
0.97
1 Group Coin Stock
1239
13.57
Ilans Fu HC-7
4.9997
4.43
Inst Four:d
10,46
11.30
Instis Growth
10.97
1200
to
.In Income
4.33 0.10
11.18 12.22
21.77
23.10
Tuesday:
14,18
15.34
13.20
14.34
1482 10.02
-0.72 0.53
18.70 36.70
B.13
6.40
6.99
10.97
12.00
Invest Te Boston
Keystone Cut Dz
Keystone Car
Masa Inv Tr
Mass Growth
Nat Sea Ser Growth
Scudder S1 & CI
Telev El Funkt Value Line Fund
V. I. P.
Agreed merchant
rates
Canadion $: Maximum Selling
10 29/32; Minimum
Buyin
Maximum
17 5/32 T/T, 17 7/32 0/D.
Belgian Francs:
Selling B70.
to
A. S. Watson
Int'l Investment. Alllod
НК FE Iny Textile Corp Nanyang
14.00 8.70 ex-nil 8,70 ex-all 8,80 1420*
13.90+
18
13.40b
• ex bonus feşale.
800 $1.10
Wall Street declines on
New York: Aug. 25.
The stock market was at the mercy of profit-takers today who pared many issues a point or more and handed the list its sharpest setback in nearly three weeks.
50
Comm. ture.price
Closing prices
border c
Abitibi Pŵr. & Paper
Alden the Asx..... Agora Steel Corp. Alled Chem
Brokers generally were not surprised overly concerned. nothing the market had earned breather by reason of Its
efforts
far The market eloved rallying
this irregular with rub-munth..
Except for, the drugs, some of And Inc. bers the
weakest section. The day's the entertainments and scatter-Asia Chimiera turnover amounted. cd blue chips, losses of one or] Am. Brahm, Show. were liberally sprinkled American Airles approximately more
throughout the list. $1,691,000.
took Wall Street, however, The market drifted throughout the day comfort in the fact that the while in largely feature-market's overall loss, ICSA and reduced moderately steep, came on trading. Mos sharply reduced, trading. sections
Steels; were
motors, aircrafte slightly oa alermits and ever the uály Turnover amounted } front-running ekofronder ware. to $818,000,
thrown for wide losses. - Drugs
rather during
$5.03 1455
profit-taking
Goodyear Tyre
Northern Railway Crummen Aircraft quifol
Warden Organ
Newport Corp.
49% | Elene Walker
40%
374 Sperry Rand
14
Standard Brands
33 Standard Oli of Cal. 294 Standard all of Ind.
Standard Oil af N.J., Sleel Co., of Canada Sleep Rock
3512
530
steels and property
Engineer textlics. browerles und
Dunranes Union Insurance - Canton - £61. Aircraft. and, Motors Bella Motor Corp.
Ord-17: 1032
Ford Motor Co–10)1 416d.) Hawker Siddeley Group Ord-30s Rolls Royce 10 721,
Ord-43s Dd. Tootes Lit
Bandar Triumph International
od.
Breweries
Dlatifters Co-435 90.
'South African Breweries 24-Od.
papers staged some recovery but. closed mixed and uncertaiřík
STANDOUT
Chemical
ci
Fords, Imperial Industries, Courtaulds
Dunlops were stich around one shiking of
British and both American
-and Imperial Tobaccas cased, Beechama made the standout on their now super- Penicillin, discovery and moved ngainst the gmin to end 1/T- 1/2D higher at 47/6p.
Dofinr, stocks were farm in responsio to Wall. Street.
Grocks roacted from arm utat In foreign bonda while Japanese non-astenled showed India
Gold mining shares held on to early guins desplie lack of business but coppers
drifted downside. Tins were firm.
Oits lost ground. Rubbers and Leng
hardened where
234 changed-UPI.
Closing prices
Britiati
Gilledged Bonda
Transport %. 1974/00-
Funding Stock 34%, 1999/200km
2742
Homerlake Mining Co.
423
Sterling Drug Co.
9822
2004
SOLL
Human Befrig
Elɔkely-Van Camp.
Consola 235%–£43]%.
Idaho Power
50%
Stone Webster
4315
Consola 4-06-15/10.
261
Imperial Oil
Studebaker-Packard Corp.
1009
Conversion Loan 315*,
1961-
Imperial Tobargo
12
Swilt & Co.
443
£56.
20
Ingersoll-Rus
Texas Co.
6021
wunding
Loan
1059/09
stos Corp
Am. Cable & Radio, Corp, American Syanamid Co. Amer, For Power Am, Gas & Electric Am. Home Prod.
American Metal Am. Natural Gas Amaricao, Singling Azn. Sugar DIKE, American Tel, Tel Aumericon Tob. Ampan Anacond Copper Armes Steel Armour
Inland. Sted. Co,
70%
201-11/10.
B
Interchemical Corp.
43
Textron in
Int'l Businters, Machiner
Tinkul Chen,
30
int' arvester
43
Tide Water Oil.
1912
48
Internsunca) Nickol
54%
Timo Inc.
Funding
ち
Loan
1940/90-
186
Tri-Cont. Watrants
404
Int'l. Tel & Tel
42
Twentieth Century Fox Film
40%
ED
Union Carbide....
1107
* Savliga 3%, 1080/65–208.
Savinës 35, 1900/70–£74. Saving 3, 1968/75—71).
71.
016 Union Oll at Cal,
434%
5715 Union Facile Kaliway
Barclay's
2012
United Aircraft
One Gd.
唱
8115
62
Liggelt Myers TDD, Co
FRA
Litton
LUY T
Lockheed Aircraft
Loors Incorp.
Wednesday: Business continued were acoon to fear to resist
restricted
Lilbe downtrend, halpod być naya half the session with of an oral polio vaccine which day
will be produced mouvrenly as Cone, Miding 'Bakiwby: Linkykla. buyers adopting a under
government logo amore Ohio wwaiting The
of mid-1581. Motion picture stacks Bank of Montival volume business amounted and scattered specials also, met Beak of Nova Scotla
W. German Deutschemarke Tharaday: Maximum Selling 72 11/16.
HK UNIT FUNDS
Firal Hongkong Fund:
Buyers
Sellers
$0.98
$1
attitude.
to $1,447,000. The
market
was
support.
Today's volume was 2,680.000 Jmpetive resulting shares
and a total 1,313
in a moderate turn shares traded, 400 were higher
over.
Docks were and 594 lower. transacted at lower
Jevels.
Dow Jones dosing oversizes: Volume of
30 Industrial business amounted
approximately 15 uniter
10
$1,815,000.
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223
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Lone Star Cament Co.
Lorlard P.
Lowenstein & Sonal
McDermott J. Ray
McDonnell Aircraft
Merck
Mesabi · Iron Corp.
Molour Brewery ·
454 Montgomery Ward
241 Motorola Ine
National Bicult Co.
301 National Cash Reg. "A"
National Dairy Prod.
National Lead
Stoel Corp. New York Central
United Prult
U.S. Fail "B"
sa US. Gypsum
US. Line Co.
29.3. nubber 234 9. Smelting
38 U.S. Sicel
U.S. Steel 7 P.C, PF Warner Bros. ......
30% Westinghouse Air Brake
Westinghouse Electric
Western Union Tel. Co.
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Winn-Dixde Stores
Woolworth (K. W.)
Zenith Radio
Bosch Idle Agvers
Bell, Taleghpnje, Beneficial Finance
Minnesota Mining
Mission Development
27%
ndix Aviallos Corp.
68
Monsanin Chemical Co.
1
Montecatini
Benguet Cons,
Baublebags, Steal
Bosina. Airplane
Borden (The) Co.
furqughs add Machine
British Amer, Ou
EU Columbia Pyr.
m5 | 138.
Cat Packing. Corp. Cana. Bk. of Comm. 21.13 Cana. Brewers
Campbell Soup Co. Canadian Pacife R Case 13, L
Cat. Tractor
Co.
Celanese, Corp.
C.I.T. Financial Corp.
Chane Manli. Bank
Chrysler Motors
Cluett Peabody Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Colombian Carbon Co.
Commercial Credi
Consolidated Edison
Consolidated Paper
Consumers, Dan
Continental Can
Continental Oil of Del
Crane Co.
Crown Zellerbach
Delaware & Hudson Co. Diamond Alkati
Diamond Gard Distillers-Beegrama Dornien, Stores Doug Aircraft Dow Chemical
Dupont de Nemours Eastern Ale Line
Eastman Kodak
30
35%
38
DO
New
401
Noranda Mines Lid.
Norfolk & Western Ry.
2431
North Amer. Aviation
10%
Northwest Airlines
(Com)
Oklahoma Nat. Gos
Ölim. Mathieson
2014 Otis Elevator
40%
自
Owen-Illinois Class
Oxford Paper Co.
Pacifle Gas
Elec,
$73k | Pan American Airways
334 Parament Pictures
02
Parks Davis Co.
87% Penny 3. C. Co.
Penn, Salt Co.
414 Philip Morris
143 Pitney Bowes
3315 Procter & Gamble Ca.
5325 Pittsburgh Plate Glaan
04.
Publicker Industries
Pullman
Pure Oil
Radio Corporation
Redio, Corp. Pref.
301% Raytheon
Repubite Steel
Reynolds Metal
Teynolds Tobacco
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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE
By
Our Own Corenpandent
Business done at the Hong- kong Stock Exchange this morning, amounted to approxi- mately $1,130,000.. Noon quota- tions and the morning's transac- tions:
બપ Rhares Buyers Selleri Bales
HK Bank 1106
20.1100
AR
80 Bk. Ama 000
Union Whart
Lombard
50
203
Royal Bank of Canada
sa 地 3:00 @ 0Q
274 Royal Dutch .....
Co.
1204
heem Mfg.
1015
17Rejovic
7.00 400
Baars, Robuck & Co.
FK Dock
3255
411
hell bit Co...
Firestone Tyre & Rubber
First Nat. lty Bank
30
Baloway Storen
75int Rec. Paper
El Paw Natural Gun,
Family Imance Carn
AND YOU SAVE MONEY!
Ford Motor
Georgia Pactile
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Foode
General Motors
Gen. Pub. Be
Cats Tyry, & Rubber detty oil
Glidden Co.
Goodrich (D. F.) Co
Bebenley Ina, .....
Brolt Paper
Slegter Corp. ase.
Sinclair Ou
071
Smith, Kline & French
SOLONY MOU
ON
KEN
Bouthern Co. (The)
Southern Railway (Com.)
Provident
200
29.70 19.30 100
58% 19.80
1000
400.1002 3142
Diley Jamm
Textile
5,00
INDE
cd.
Dank
Bank "A" Lid ord
Chartered Bank-506 24.
Hongkok "A"-880 Od.
Naloriel & Grindlayw Bank-is
Bank "A" 1216% ·
Weatarinster
Non-Cumulative-42.
Yesterday's Closing
Building & Materials Amociates Portland Cement-73 Gooding Wall & Lead and—is. Coal, Steel & Engineering Babcock & Wilcox Etd-370 64. United Elea)-Dia.
·Vickers Lid321 Kl.
90.
Food & Tobacco British American Tol Co., Ltd--
imperint Tobacco Co., LIA-039
Miscellaneo Boardman Marden Lid 2. British Oxygen Lid, Ord-29% Od, Canadian Panie Rly-$34. De La Rug Co. Ord-18s bd. Dunlop Rubber C-296 2 Gilan Holding Lid-21 4510, Imperial Chemical-87% Od. Lyops Co-846 d.
Lid=161 d. Pader
Bowaler, 10140.
Paper Corp
Ord--624
Radio and Electrical Anoelated Electrical-015. Electrical & MULTIOR-50 English Electrio Co—–380" Day General Electrio-30. 3.
Shipping
34.
£
Indo-China, Bleam Nav. Co, del ord-234 Bd.
Steam Navigation def prd---
PG 103
Great
1012d
Ebores
Univer Stores "A"-80%
Marks & Spencer Ltd 875 04, Woolworth F. W, & 06-761 04. Textiles
Cools J. & PL10-038 1364. -Courtaulda "LA-876" Tid
Mines
Cons Goldfields of South Africa-e 03 $160.
Con. Zine Corp. Ord-17 Bd.
De Beers def-16 pd,
Random 28 1011⁄2d
Southern Kinia Cons Lid-dla 64. Union Corp—bla 105|d. · West Driefontein GoldminAlag—–80%| Td
British
3.
cateco Petroleum Syndi
British Burmah Petroleum Ja 90. Britlali Petroleum Co. Ltd—19#
过
Bumi Sch.
Royal Dutch Petroleum--£ 12-33/32, Shell Transport & Trading—132.
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COMMODITY PRICES
COTTON
NEW YORK
Closing prices all in cents per lb.:
Spot: 32.40; Oct; 31.01; Dec: 31.83; MAT: 32.10; May: 32.21: July: 38.42; Oct; 32.47: Deo 32.70 Mar: 37.70: May: 3282; July: 31.90.
NEW YORK Rex rubber futures closing prices, all intenta per lb:-
Sot: 34.50; Nov: 34.00; Jars: 31.10; Mur: 32,40, May: 3825) July; 3.30; Bept: so.
SINGAPORE
Closing prices all in Strails cents per Ib. fab. Malayan
NEW ORLEANS Closing prices all in cents per fb.:
Spot: 29.155 det: 3666; Ded: 31.24; parts, Mar 278: May: 31.18: July 28 No. 1 Sept. Det: 17: Duet 33.42; Mar: May: 12.75: July AT
LIVERPOOL
No. Sept
Supt
Closing prices all in pence per Nat.
16.:
American Contract Oct/Novi 22.00; Dec/Jan: 22.50; Mar/April 22,20; 2nx/June: 22.30.
Miród Contract
Oct/Nov: 2280: Dec./Jan: 22:55: Mar/Apr: 22.50; May/June: 22,75 UPI.
METALS
NEW YORK Closing prices, ait is
180
per lb.: Lead
Sept.
Nov.
Zind Bopt
NOW
Copper Bept.
7.70
Nov.
300 02
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101 HK Land, 001 58 009
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Electria ... 27.7 on
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30 30%
GL Cement 949)
A. Huber
Taikoo Doole
640
2000, 302,00
200 B
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15.30
LONDON Cikning prices, all in sterling per long bon
Tin spot
3-month
Copper spot
3-month
Zine 'and holt
Btzer Selberm
BUGAR
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· 2413)
Spot Tubser unbeled Blanket crepe
No. 1 pale crepe-
LONDON
2634+07
Closing prices all in perce
b.:
No. 1 spot
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Sept.
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Jan./Mar.
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Theat
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AMSTERDAM
2012-281
Closing prices, all in gulders
per kilogram, clf, Sept...
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No. 3 rubber
No. 7 rubber
No, 1 crepe
72 bayers
buyers
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK Closing rates;
Olinda Bingid official
Aurundia
New, ZacketsS
800
XK OM
100 § 14,30
Closing rate :
14,401b.j
New-York
| Coaleset· 190; 4 ((werk) ..
||SCntreal
Amsterdam
Closing prioos dii în venta pert
Tutar Sales: 175 contri
Open, interest: 3,435 constách Contras No, s Edomesti