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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1924
Page
12
General market activity pushes wheat higher on frigid forecasts and bread supply concerns. May wheat gains but rebounds late as selling broadens. corn and oats mirror wheat moves while hog price optimism lifts provisions to fresh 1924 highs.
AP reports sugar prices in New York with fine granulated near term at 7 7.30 cents and January delivery at 6.25 cents. Futures closed steady as 10,900 tons were sold with January at 2.780 cents, March 2.82, May 2.92, and Sale 3.03 cents.
Early morning potato trading in Chicago shows market strength with 2 carloads received. United States shipments total 309. Wisconsin round whites partly frozen sold at 1.15 to 1.20 dollars per hundredweight and a single car at 1.25 dollars.
A fragment from December 21 lists bar silver and Mexican dollars with a 51 cent piece. The OCR text is incomplete but indicates a currency price note in a finance column.
Copper and oil shares led a busy market with many issues hitting new yearly highs. Denver reports Colorado Fuel and Iron rails orders sustain activity. Kennecott earnings may reach 7.25 to 7.50 per share for the year. Tonopah Extension Mining bought adjacent holdings for 250000 in treasure stock and plans deep shaft work. Bethlehem Steel starts a 120000 ton rod and wire plant at Sparrows Point. Etowah Iron Ore mines to reopen January 15 1925. Grain prices jump with May at 1.83 July 1.56. profit taking eases later.
Chicago cattle and hog receipts totaled around 3,000 with cattle prices up to 65 cents higher for beef steers and yearlings and hogs showing steady to ten cent gains. Top cattle hit about 12 dollars per hundredweight, while hogs with 180 to 200 pounds averaged near 10 dollars, with lighter weights firm.
Hog prices show varied bids with choices around $9.50 to $10.80 and packing hogs at $9.75. Sheep receipts around 8,000 with fat lambs mostly steady to higher, top $19.25 for clippers and bulk lambs $18.50 to $19.25, yearlings and wethers up.
Market roundups from South St. Paul and Omaha show cattle receipts around 300 and 100 weekly, with killing classes up 25 to 50 cents and stockers steady to weak, bulk prices for fed steers and yearlings near 7.9 dollars. hogs largely steady with 160 to 210 pound averages at about 9.5 dollars, sows around 9.75, and lambs rising 2 to 2.5 dollars with fat ewes 16.5 to 18.5 dollars.
Denver stock market reports show hog receipts 150 with prices up to 10.25 for two loads of 200 to 230 pounds, cattle receipts 150 with beef steers steady and top cows at 9.50 to 10, stockers higher, and sheep receipts 8,300 with fatty lambs around 17.40 to 17.50 and fat sheep up to 9, late gains noted for feeder lambs.
From Portland Oregon December 27 cattle mostly steady with some up to 1 per cent gains for cows and calves. Beef steers bring 5.50 to 7.50 with others 3.25 to 5.25 for cows and heifers. Hogs steady to 10 cents higher with desirable-weight butchers 9.75 to 9.85. Sheep receipts light with lambs at 14 to 14.50 and yearlings 12. Wethers up to 10 and ewes to 8.590.
December 27 report from Seattle Union Stockyards notes 400 cattle and 630 market ready, market very active with top grades selling at higher pace. Cattle steers at 50. Ady.
The week saw subdued trading with limited price moves and strong profit taking absorbed. Anaconda Copper dividend boosts copper sentiment while prices reach new yearly highs. wheat and rye rise, corn and oats near high figures. Sugar eases as new crop movement weighs, cotton steady with liberal exports. improved English trade and Worth Street turnover noted. Overall, confidence in underlying conditions grows as year-end approaches, with export demand a potential bullish trigger.
The market reflects heavy wheat realisations and profit taking by longs, yet demand remains steady with ongoing buying support. Corn shows a similar undertone amid tiny crops and moderate receipts, while oats stay cheap despite large stockpiles and looming terminal demand. Rye November clearances were notably light.
New York December 27 The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows an excess reserve of 25 366 150 dollars. Reserve increased 40 385 680 dollars compared with last week.
Foreign exchanges in New York show firm demand with quotes for Great Britain and France, plus various European currencies. Spokane reports cattle receipts 123, hogs 121 with steady market. sheep none, quotes range for hogs from 9.25 to 10.50 and pigs at 8.25 to 9.00 while feeders sit at 6.25 to 6.75. Also mentions Norte railway plan to buy locomotives and freight cars prompting potential layoffs in Bilbao industries.
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