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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1923
Page
10
Wheat gains arise after export demand surpasses 1 million bushels. September and December hit new lows, then close firmer on export basis. Corn, oats, and hog provisions shift with mixed results. Minnesota cash grain shows firm No 1 northern wheat and steady barley and flax values.
Opening trading sparked a rally on the New York Stock Exchange with short covering and buy orders. Major gains touched several leaders like Baldwin American Locomotive American Can Studebaker Pan American U S Steel and rail shares while sugar stocks climbed on improved commodity outlook. Foreign exchange eased with sterling and francs slipping and call money steady at 5 percent plus dull time money.
New York on June 21 reports butter steady with creamery and firsts trading around 39 to 40 cents and 37 to 38 cents for various grades. Eggs show irregular movement with Pacific coast whites and storage pack prices ranging from 21 to 35 cents, while cheese indicates easier whole milk flats and fancy specials near 25 to 26 cents. Chicago markets mirror lower butter with creamery extras around 38 to 39 cents and eggs down to 20 to 22 cents for firsts, with storage pack values around 21 to 24 cents.
London metal prices dated June 21 show copper spot £66 2s 6d with futures £66 12s 6d. Electrolytic copper spot £73 and futures £73 10s. Tin spot £187 17s 6d with futures £188 5s. Lead spot £25 and futures £24 7s 6d. Zinc steady with spot £28 12s 6d and futures £29.
New York sugar prices firm as refiners raise list to 9.50 for fine granulated. Other refiners quote 9.25 to 9.90 with warm weather boosting demand. Sugar futures close firm with approx 34,000 tons traded: July 5.56, September 5.61, December 5.19, March 4.13.
New York June 21 copper eases with electrolytic spot and futures at 15 15 percent. tin also soft at $40.12 spot and $40 futures. lead and zinc steady with zinc at 5.85 to 5.90 cents. Antimony trades 6.75 to 6.85 cents.
Call money figures show high and low at 5 percent with a ruling rate of 5 percent and last loan at 5 percent. Call loans against acceptances quoted at 4 percent. Time loans steady with 60 to 90 days at 4 to 5 percent and 4 to 6 months at 5 percent. Prime commercial paper at 5 percent.
U S Department of Agriculture dispatched daily livestock quotes from Chicago on June 21. Hogs receipts 40 000 mostly 10 to 15 cents lower with varied weights showing declines. top $7.60, bulk 7.30 to 7.40 for larger hogs, packing sows around 6 60. Cattle receipts 11 000, better grades steady to slightly lower, top $11.50 with loads at 11 11 25. veal calves 9 to 9 50, up to 10 50 for some outsiders. Sheep receipts 14 000 lambs slow, early sales 50 cents lower. best natives about 16, lower grades weak for sheep. Texas wethers 5 50 to 6 75. 115 pound ewes 7 dollars.
Market 19 shows heavy selling absorbed with prices improving after the initial wave. Analysts expect less pronounced declines ahead and potential sharp recoveries. US crude oil production for the week ending June 16 averaged 2,131,850 barrels daily, up 55,600 from the prior week. California output reached 785,000 barrels daily up from 740,000. Secr Melton remarks boost stocks. copper slightly weaker. iron age report favorable to steel. extreme heat reduces operations. drilling permits week ending June 16 lowest since November 1921, especially in southern fields.
Values show prices for packing sows mostly 10 to 15 cents lower at six to six thirty, bulk six to six ten, stock pigs steady around six fifty to six eighty five with a few at six ninety. Sheep receipts about two thousand steady to fifteen cents lower, top natives nine teen to twenty, locals and Texas wethers six seventy five to seven twenty five.
Cattle receipts at St Paul and Denver total around 16 000 and 1 080 head respectively. In St Paul fat beeves bring up to 9.85, grain fed steers 8.50 to 9.50, with grassers near 6 and fat stock down to 3.50 to 9.50. Hogs at St Paul mostly 6.75 to 7.20 for good lights, down to 6.25 for plainer grades, sows to 5, pigs around 6.25. Sheep yield steady to lower, fat lambs 15 to 15.25, ewes around 3 to 5.25. Denver market shows cattle steady with beef steers 9 to 11.59, cows and heifers 4.50 to 8.59, calves 4.50 to 10.50, stockers 6 to 7.75. hogs steady to 10 cents higher, top 7.35, bulk 7 to 7.25. sheep none, yearlings 10.50 to 12, lambs 14 to 15, ewes 4 to 5.50.
OMAHBA June 21 Hog receipts 8 500 uneven steady to be lower bulk butchers 200 to 250 pound averages 6.50 to 6.90 top 7.60 bulk sales six loads light and packing sows 6.15 to 6.40 heavy packing sows 5.50 to 6 cattle receipts 4 600 best grades beef steers steady others slow weak to 10 cents lower top two loads 1 250 pound average 11 bulk 9.25 to 10.25 all other classes mostly steady bulks follow cows and heifers 6 to 8.25 canners and cutters 3.50 to 4.50 bologna bulls 3.75 to 4 practical veal top 10.25 few feeding steers 7.75 sheep receipts 4 000 killing classes mostly 25 to 50 cents lower Idaho lambs 15.25 to 15.75 native lambs 15 to 15.50 red clipped lambs 14.10 medium yearlings 10.50 light ewes 5 to 5.25 feeders steady best feeding lambs including at 12.75
Kansas City June 21 cattle receipts about 3000 calves 500 beef steers and yearlings and fat stock with calves steady to strong top heavy steers 11.15 several loads medium and heavy 11 lighter weight Texas cows offered 5.75 fairly good yearlings 9.89 medium to good cows 5.50 7 desirable heifers 8 8.75 better grades dealers 9 10 other classes steady with weakness on plainer grade bulls canners around 2.50 bologna bulls 4 4.59 Hogs receipts 7000 steady to lower shipper top 7.10 packer top 7.10 bulk 170 to 190 pound averages at 6.80 7 desirable 200 to 300 pound butchers 7 7.10 bulk of
Spokane market paper notes cattle receipts at 62 head with prices steady, hog receipts 240 with no change in quotations, and sheep receipts 29 with market status unchanged. The brief dispatch reflects a flat livestock trade tone for the day.
Portland cattle steady as receipts reach 74. Hogs remain nominally steady with 128 contracts. sheep show strength with 238 head received. Market tone reflects cautious demand amid steady prices.
Los Angeles market notes show receipts of cattle 200 hogs 500 and calves 400 with no price data provided. The brief item cites the Federal State Livestock Market News Service in Los Angeles dated June 21.
Foreign Exchange desk in New York reports easy quotations with daily demands for Britain France Italy Belgium and other nations. Rates shown include Germany Denmark Norway Sweden Switzerland Spain Greece Poland Czecho Slovakia Argentina Brazil and Montreal with bid and cable figures for each currency.
New York reports foreign bar silver at 64% 4 cents and Mexican dollars at 49. London lists bar silver at 81 5 16 pence per ounce and Money-15 percent.
Gothenburg hosts the first Swedish Fourth of July festivities marking Sweden as the first to sign a commercial treaty with the United States after independence. Sweden America week culminates in a Tercentennial Jubilee exposition with about 5,000 American visitors expected and attendance by the king and crown prince.
Americans recall Gustaf III at unveiling of a new statue in Sweden, honoring his support for the American colonies during the Revolutionary War and his later authorization of the republic's first commerce and amity treaty. The statue is a gift from American citizens to Sweden.
Danish farmers support a Russian Danish trade accord enabling a direct steamship line from Scandinavian ports to Petrograd to open this summer. Norwegian British and Danish capitalists drive the project, viewing the agreement as securing a market for surplus Danish farm produce. The note adds that modern weekday names derive from Roman origins.
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