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Finance and Commerce
MONEY AND
EXCHANGE
SILVER MARKET
LONDON SILVER
London, Aug. 26 (Reuter), « SUver-India sold. Speculators
CLOSING QUOTATIONS bought. Business moderate Market
AUG. 26, 1939
On London:-
Telegraphic Transfer. 1/19/31. Bank Bills, on demand/ 19/39 Credits 4 months' sight 1/3 1/32
On Shanghai:--
On" demand
On Singapore:--
dull and uncertain.
Spot, 20-1/16.
Forward, 18-7/8d.
NEW YORK SILVER New York, Aug. 26 (Reuter). oficial Price, unquoted.
BOMBAY SILVER Bombay, Aug. 26 (Reuter), Market-Steady
Offtake nil.
LONDON METALS
EXCHANGE
London, Aug. 23 (Reutert.
COPPER..
3 months 45-7/16 Electrolytic 50-1/3
£
buyers sellers
£
Standard, Cash 45-3/8 Standard.
45-1/2
1
*** *3
45-1/2 53
•
TIN
Standard, Cash 229-7/8 Standard,
230
3 months 224-5/8
224-3/4
On demand
51 3/4
Indian Mint Silver
On Japan:-
Ready
On demand
104
Sept. 9 Settlement
Oct. 7 Settlement
81 1/8
On India
Telegraphic Transfer. į
and demand
On New York:-
Bank Bills, on deraand 27 Credits; 60 days' sight 27 1/2
Un Batavia :—
On Paris:-
Un demand
50
Bank Bills, on demand 1660
Credits 4 months' sight 1105
Un Saigon see-
JES
10 3/8"
Un Manila:-
On demand
ન
On Bangkok -...
On demand
162 1/2
On demand
Sterling Notes:-
Bank Buying Rate ... 1/2 13/16.
Har Silver«per oz.
..."20 1/16
SHANGHAI RICE
PRICE DROPS
(Cen- CHUNGKING, August 28 tral)-The price of rice in Shang- hal underwent a slight drop yês- terday upon reports that large quantities of foreign, rice being imported.
Rice riots continued to take place in the International Settle- ment yesterday.
were
Oficial Price 14-13/16 14-7/8 Ordinary, Oficial
14-15/16
3 months 14-7/8
Final Afternoon Transactions Tin, Standard, Cash, £229-7/8 buyers.
Tin. Standard...3 months, £224- 1/2 value.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATION
.... 51-03 51-02 51-03
LEAD
!!!
Foreign.
Official Price 16-144 Foreign Omciä]
18-5/18
3 months 18-1/16
18-1/9
$31
SPELTER
#144
Ordinary,
***
FINANCE
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
„ETOCK EXCHANGE
T
SHARIBROKERS ASSOCIATION
ine Womina
Bale Femina SATURDAY 28,1 Bayer Bullen
AUG.
Banks
MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1939...
PAYNE
& CO.
N. C. & & Hanks ...
*Insurances
$300 Canson Insursocas
$300 Union Insurances $12
Ünderwriters
$180 H.K Fires
Shipping
$67
Douglas
$17
Steamboats
Indo-Chinas
$60
$30 82/6
***
(Post)
Indo-Chinas (Del.)...
8balla
$8.10 Waterboata
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, etc.
$103 H.K. & K. Wharve
Providente
Providenia (a) H&W. Dock...
$1115
$1100
H.K. Banks
£70
Do. (Col. Reg.)
#1190]
$1100
270
Do. (Lon. Bag)
26.
|Chartered Banks
234
Mercantile Bk. "**"
213
[Moroiziile Bia, - "0"
$79
tank of Fani Anla .......
******
£70 £70 24
[MET
COMMODITY BROKERS
STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING"
· HONGKONG
#:
$8
£11
ria
60. Obs.
$300
$360
$185
$15
850
820
89/6
COMMODITY MARKET REVIEW
(FROM PAYNE & CO.).
New York, August 26,
$10%
$31
**
898
$17
83/80 130.
12/0 Kaikans
$8.60 Raubsi
$4 Vanernels Gold Fida
4 éta, Hong Kong Mines"... ¡Lands, Hotels and
par
Buildings
H.K. Hocala
H.K. Lands
Do. 4% Debentieron
$7.90 Shanghai Lands
H.K. Boaltion
Humphreys
Chinesa Estaten-
Cotton Mills
Kwo (8.)
SPOT
110 Stanghal Dooks 8.
¿Now Engineerings 5.
Mining
$108 89.30
OCT,-DEC.
JAN.-MARCH
13/6
$9.40 $4
$4
$30
$100
!!
SPOT. OCT,-DEC. JAN--MARCH
change
27-7/8 28-1/8 28-1/4
27-7/8
28-1/2 29-1/4
up 3/8
un 1/8 up 1/8
28 28-1/8 27-3/4 28 -27-7/8-28-1/8
The market was purely nominal with general absence of inter- est, pending clarification" of the political situation.
LONDON RUBBER
Previous close To-day's clósë
buyers sellers buyers sellers change
8-11/16 8-3/4
SINGAPORE RUBBER
August 25
August 28
buyers sellers buyers sellers
8-11/16 8-3/4
CLOSED
8-11/18 8-3/4
$7.00
NEW YORK COTTON
$17
Market Report
STOCKS
0.8. Dollars
27./14 and also 17.3/8 for cash. Case, J.I.
i
1/16 and 27.1/8 was also done Celanese
Shanghai Dollars
London
23-1/8 18
2.39.
22-1/8
Spot
Spot"
FROM ROZA BROS.
Adams Express
Silver prices rose Id. on Saturday Alleghany Steel Co. for both deliveries, the quotations Allied Stores being 20.1/16 for Ready and 20 for Allis Chalmers Forward. Silver advices reported Aluminium Ltd the market as being steady. Offers Amerada Corps. were scarce, The market closed Amer. Can with sellers at the quoted rate. American Cyanamid B American Silver was quoted at 39
Amer. Foreign Power 3/4 for Spot.
The London-New York, cross- rate was quoted at 448, New York- London was quoted at 449.1/4....
Erratic..
Market
Sterling
Ameri & Foreign #7 pi........ American Gas & Elec Amer. Locomotive Amer, Metais, Co.
Amer, Rolling Mill Amer. 8'ting and Ring Co. Business was done shortly after Amer. Sugar Ring ........... the opening at 1/2.21/32 for Cash. Amer. Tal. & Tel. Subsequently business was done at Amer. Tobacco "B" 1/2.11/16 for Cash 1/2.19/32 was Amer. Waterworks also done for January. Later, the Anaconda" Copper.. market eased off and business was Atchison, T. & S. Fe. done again at 1/2.21/32 for Cash Auburn Motors .... and 1/2.5/8 was also done for Oc-Baltimore & Ohio tober and September. The market Barber Asphalt Co closed with sellers at 1/221/32 Barnsdall Ol Cash, 1/2.5/8 September, 1/219/32 Bendix Aviation October-November, and 1/29/16 Bethlehem Steel December-January, buyers at 1/2. Bliss & Co.
11/18 Cash, 1/2.5/8 October and Boeing Airplane Co. 172.19/32 January.
Erratic. Opened nominal with Brooklyn-M'hattan Trans. sellers at 27 1/8 with business done B'klyn-M’hattan $8 cum pt. subsequently at 273/16 for Cash, Canadian Pacific R'way.
for September delivery. Towards Chesapeake & Onto
the close" the market weakened Chrysler Corga.
and business was done at 27.3/16 Colts Patent Fire-Arins
for August and 27 September. Columbia Gas & E. The market closed with sellers at Columbia 6% "A" pf. 27.3/18 for cash and 28.7/8 Bep-Commercial
témber, buyers at 27.1/4 for cash Commonwealth & 8. (ord); lj
and 27 September.
Nominal at 370.
Shanghal Market,
Opened at 3.11/16 and towards
the close sellers were reported at 3.7/8 for Spot.
Shanghai Exchange
Shanghai, Aug. 26 (Reuter),
"Official T.T. Rates
New York
Japan
India
Com Producta
Du Pont de Nemours Eagle Picher Lead Opening Baton Mig Co. 0/3-1/4 Elec. Autolite-- ..:6-5/16
Elec. Bond & Share Elec. Bond & Share $5 pf.
Parts ... "Hongkong
Open Market Selling Bate
Aug.
Sterling
Ballers
Opening Closing 0/3-5/Į ̈ ̈0/3-7/8.. *0/3-5/8- 0/3-7/8
“Bept, ................ 9/3-5710+ ̄- 0/8-19/32
́U.q. – Dollars:
56-3/4 #1-1/8- Ang. 103 6-3/4 7-1/16- Sept.
una.
Market:Quiet.
Merchant Rates' Sterling, 0/3-13/16. US. Dollars, $T-1/16.
Calcutta Exchange
Calcutta, Aut. 20 (Reutet). T.Ton Japan, 78-1/2.
New York Exchange
New York, Aug 20 (Reuter). TT, en Londori (Opening Rate);
uoted,
India Rupee Paper:
Last Sale Aug. 28
AUG. 27, 1839 STOCKS
$1208'hal Cotton (19.) ..
$110
Market closed,
$41
Last Sale
Zoong Bing (8.)
$40
Aug. 26
48 Wing On Textiles (8.)
180
Public Utities
10t
Int. Tel. & Tel.........
·
8134
8
Johns Manville
8131
Tramways"
$131
964
$7.40 Peak Trams (old)
32
J. & Laughlin Steel St pid.
40 *
$3.70 Peak Trame (new)
117
Kennecat; Copper
35
$63
Star Forrig
$7.40 $9.70 $82
59
Lakey Foundry & Mas.
2**
981
Libbey-Owens-Fürd
Glass
47"
271
Lockheed Aircraft
211
21
Loew's Inc.
40+
20
Manhattan Shirt Co......
$49
361
Martin, Glen L.
201
#
15)
McKesson, Robbins
147*
$11
271*
Monsanto Chemical
190
100
Amer. Radiator
10.
Montgomery Ward
491
13
National Cash Register Co. 17
43
at. Dairy Products
184
Nat. Distillers
23
1641
National Gypsum
10%
B01
National Load ..............
201
101
Nat, Power & Light
82
25
National Steel Corp.
.63
24.
|Nat. Supply "Corpn.
7
New York Central
131
H
Niagara Hudson Power
61
11*
12]
N. American Aviation'.................. North American Co..........
142
23
231
581
Northern Pacife ................ Owens-linols Glass Co.
B
841
9
Packie Gas & Elec.
321
18
Pacific Lighting
41
Borg-Warner Bigga M'facturing
22
Packard Motors
·31
201
Paramount Pictures
81
11
Pennsylvania RR.
181
Phelps-Dodge
401
387
31
Phillips Petroleum
344
701
Public Service of NJ.
@goma augurinn
Imati Ferries
Do. (new)
$8.95
China Light (0)
$8.36
$8.35
$4
China Lights (New)
$4
China Lights Kov.
H.K. Electrica
$48
849
$IA
Macao Electrics ».
19/5 Tractions
Handakan Lights.....
{Telephone" (old)
$7.80 Telephones (new)
22/ Tractions (prof.)
Industrials
321
87
NEW YORK RUBBER
The market nuctuated erratically within narrow Trade and commission-house buying was offset by foreign selling and liquidation, which was mostly due to favourable weather conditions, and the continued uncertainties in Europe.
CHICAGO WHEAT
Profit-taking and Hquidation by nervous holders on what are considered to be better prospects for peace has continued intermit-- tently. Lacking the concerted demand which would result from the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, statistically "the evidence is all against higher prices in the immediate future. Exports have legged, a
Previous To-day's
mits. Early
$14
Cald., Mang. (Ord.) 8.
$18
Cald., Macg. (Fref.). §.
New York Stocks
close
close
Change
133,73
136,39
up. 2,66
$1
$12.80 Cam
Canton long..........
E1
$12.80
320
$181
#1
39
23
Pullman Inc.
2+1
$3.76 Rope
Miscellaneous
Dairy Farm (Old)
Dairy Farm (New) $6.90 Ch. 5'immorta
$1.5B Constructions
Constructipos
Lane Crawfords
Nanyang Tobacco
$1.80 BinoseS
Waisons
3 Ch. G.5% 1925G #Ade,
$102 H.. Govt. 4% Lower
H.K. Wing Os
What Wing. On Vibro Piling numune
·Marumaas Inv. {LOR) Maramans Inv. (HK) Wm. Powalla #Bal
to Shanghai
$3.80
320)
$8.90
(all)
N. Y. Commodity Market
(DOW)
(By Courtesy of Messrs. Swan, Culbertson & Frite and 8. E. Levy & Company)
$98H.E. Gort. 34% Lqun
par
899
$41
$10
1973
Prev. To-day's
34
Pure Ou
67
771
Radio Corpn. of Am.
New York Cotton, Oct. New York Rubber, Sept. Chicago Wheat, Sept. Chicago Com, Sept. Winnipeg Wheat, Oct. New York Hides, Sept.
High Low Close Close Change
8.64 8.58 8.81
18.76a
Jo
67 661 1881
431
581
421 55**
431
57+
10.25 closed
,51
74
Reading Company, lat afd
211*
་
Remington Arms Co., Inc.
"LONDON STOCK
EXCHANGE
NEW YORK COTTON
.80.
Republic Steel
16
447
Reynold Tobac. "B"
(REUTER'S SERVICE)
Close
Opening
Closing
Change
381
Richfeld Of
London." August 25.
October
8.61/61
8.62/61
8.59/59
船
C'wealth & B. 8% cum pt.
681
Safeway Stores
43+
Consolidated Edison
317
Schenley Distillers
Consolidated Ou
Schenley, 54% pfd.
73
The following quotations are the middle prisms at the clone at the market in London. All quotations are subject to confirms- tion and no responsibility in suumed for errors in transmission.
December
8.46/47
-8.45/45
8.43/44
.03 of
January
8.32 N
832b/338
8.29 IT
03 of
March
8 22/23
8.21/23
8.29/23
vinch.
Continental Can
30
Sears Roebuck
17
"
£
May.
8.07/08
8.08/09
8.09/09
unch,
Continental' Oll
211
Severský Aircraft
21*
583
Shell Unlan Oll
War Loan, 34% (ryed
Union Insurance
29
101
Curtiss Wright (C.)
41
Bocony-Vacuum Cl
114
Curtiss Wright “A”
23
Southern Pacipe .......
124
after 1952) ........................... 881 Cantoh-K'loon Rly. 5% 12 Chinese 41% Gold Loan
Deere & Co...
174
Southern Rly $5 pfd."
32
Distillers Corpn. Beagrams
161
Sperry
327
Douglas Aircraft
601
Standard Brands
1808 (Brit, Issue)....... 39 Chinese 5% Gold Bonda,
1925-47
16/6 Asso. & Elec. Industries 38 Austin Motors, ord. Cable & Wireless, New
Form, ard.
Gula Kalumpang Rubber 15/9 Allied Ironfounders
July Spot
7.93/93
.7.94/54′
7.93/93
unch.
9.11 N
9.04 N
97. ON
NEW YORK RUBBER
23/8
September December
16.15b/76a
16.49/48
CLOSED
160
Stand Gas & Elec.
27
Chin. 41%, Anglo-French
B.-A. Tob. (bearer)
85/7
March
18.41b/45a
$2
Standard Oil of California
25
Loan, 1908
38
Cammell Laird, ord,
6/2
May
16.37b/423
231
Standard Oil of N.J.
301
Chinese 5% Crisp Loan,
Mexican Eagle
5/41
331
Stone & Webster
104
1912.
17+
Courtaulds
CHICAGO WHEAT
ନ
Bilft International
28.....
Chinese 5% Reorg. Loan,
Distillers
58
Technicolor
134..
1913 ́(Ldn. I)
Dunlop Rubber
25/6
Eles. Bond & Share,$6 pt.
68
Texas Corpo.
351
Chinese 8% Ster. Notes,
Chen, Electric (England) "73
Elec. Power & Light $7 pí Flintkote
30
Texes Gulf Sulphur
28
1925 (Vickers)
18
Trans-America Co...
51⁄2"
Chin. Imperial Rly. 5%
Hawker Siddeley Airc
Guinness (A) Son & Co. 88/9
September "December
May
681/684 67/86) 681/631 67/66 68/691
67/67 671/67# 671/671
off of
15/7
Food Machinery Corp.
30
20th Cent. Fox.
18
Loan
Bristol Aeroplane
15/71
Friday's sales-30,944,000 bushels.
Gen. American Trans..........
48
| 20th Cent, Fox. 31) pt.
Hanan. Rly. 5%
12
Imperial Chemical Ind. 29
Gen. Electric
36
| Union Carbide & Carbon
80
Hukuang Bly. 5% 1911... 13.
Imperial Tobacco
125
CHICAGO CORN.
Gen. Motors
447
Union Pacific.
96
Marks & Sp'cer "A" org. 56/2 .
Gen. Railway Signal
15
United Aircraft
34
(German: Insta)'
12
Rolls Royce®
98/9
General Tire & Rubber Co 19
United Airlines Trans.
10
Gidden Co.....
151
United Corpa
21
Lung Taing & U-Hai Rly.
5% 1913....
Leyland Motors
88/9
September...
December
9
Tate & Lyle
61
May
431/437 43/424 432/437 431/42
481/461
431/431
433/433 48/401
Goodrich (BF)
194
United Corpn. $3 cùm pf.36
Goodrich $5 pf.
671 United. Cas Corpa, wali
Goodyear Tire, & Co.
20
Great Northern Iron Ore ....
131'
United Gas Improvement Reading Company, Com
137
S'hal-N'king Rly 8%B Tientsin-Pakow Rly, 5%
(Brit. Stpd.)
Turner & Newall. Mas T1/6 United Steel Ab
22/3
WINNIPEG. WHEAT
111
Smethwick Drop Forg... 14/9
101*
Great Northern Fly, pfd.
23
U.S. Rubber
39巷
Great Western`Super.
US. Rubber $8 píd. :
1061
Greyhound Corpn....
16
US Steel
461
Hecker Products .
11
Vanadiura A
2143
Hercules Powder Co. Homestake Mining Industrial Rayon International Harvester Int. Nickel
737
Warner Bros. Pict.
43
Tientain-Fukow Riy. 5%
(German" #tpd.) 12 Tientsin-Pukow Rly, 5%
(Brit. Stpd. Supl. Loan) 12 "Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5% ..... (Ger. Stpd. Supl. Loan) Jap. 5% Ster. Loan, 1907 29
Armstrong Stevens, ord. 5/9
Pressed Steel, com Vickers, ord.
17/10
October December
571/57
50%/59
56/55 57/502
571/571
18/8.
12"
Woolworths. i -- 61/72 Anglo-Dutchoguumia 22/3
May
615/62/
801/601
955
off
·631
Westinghouses Electr
1034
23...... Woodward Iron Cor, w
501 471
· Chase National Bank 2277 National City Bank
151 80*
ER & Bhat Bank (Lda.
Reg)
Jap. 6% Ster. Loan, 1924 34° Ger. 7% Intl Loan, 1924 23 Chartered Bank 2
70%
HK & Shal Bank (Col.
DOW 20.1IS AVKLAGE
Rab. Plant. Invest. Trust 25 Burma Corporation -Commonwealth Mining Maranan - Investments... Randfontein Estates Western Holdings ... Sub-Nigel SVEDELIK Tanaml-Gold “Mining,
NEW YORK HIDES
7/6
September
10.25/25
CLOBET
12/3
December
10.58/63
16/3 10/9 210
NY Silver, Official
30-3/4 NY-London Cross Rate 449-74
mánotád
+64)
(1939)
High Low Dow Jones AvOCK
15485 181.44|||20 Industelita (34.33, 2014- 30: Baila:
27.07 20.71 20 Utilities
95 23 87.06 40: "Bonda
30.26
66.09
26.50
1-6 ABE 17, 1839. Ing. 5 High Low Clan
· Chinese Eng & Mining Change (beater) 188.93 135.16:138.39 3.58up Chosen Corporation 1348
26.96 36.58 16.35 0.01 UP Pekin Syndicate 26.23 34.75 36:13-162 ep
7-88.31 0.19 up Shat Hed. Constz.
Anglo-Iranian Burbal
6/71
6379
Bepté
12/62
Shell Trans.
(bearer)
NEW YORK STRAITS TIN
Unavailable
NEW YORK COPPER FUTURES
closed
12/6
Nominal
Aug. 28 (Reuter Govi 34% Rupee: 95-04-0.
61.0945.59 11 Commodity Index 47.98
10 to1/*
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