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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1925
Page
10
Chicago traders end a volatile session with wheat down 2 1 2 to 3 cents as demand wanes after a modest 2 217 million bushel drop in visible supply. Corn and oats show mixed moves while cash bids for grain and related commodities adjust. Minneapolis and Duluth quotes follow regional patterns.
New York May 11 The stock market rose mainly in motors rubber and select industrials with Willys Overland surging over three points to 24 1 2 a five year high on reports of large profits. Trading volume reached about 300 000 shares.
Motor shares led the market with strong demand as Studebaker and Willys-Overland rose toward near three times the year's low. Steel faced heavy selling but sentiment improved with forward orders, while rails saw profit taking. Skelly Oil active after a new well, cast iron pipe pressured by foreign competition, and motor-related accessories remained mostly dormant amid high factory schedules. United Verde and Magma Copper notes, plus earnings outlooks for Willys-Overland and others, framed a cautious but optimistic tone for credit and industrials.
Persistent buying of July corn kept its premium over September while cash demand was slow. Visible supply decreased, and frost patterns threaten widespread planting as warmth is needed. wheat cooled from recent highs but could rebound with buying.
Irregular quotations for foreign exchanges show Great Britain at 4.84 percent demand and 4.85 cables. France at 5.21 demand and 5.22 cables. Germany 23.80. Belgium 5.05. Italy 4.10. Call money eased to 3 percent with bids at 3 percent. time loans steady. prime commercial paper 3 to 4 percent. Bar silver 67 1/2 cents in New York. Mexican dollars 52 cents. London bar silver 31 1/2 pence.
May 11 report from New York shows copper steady with spot and futures at 13 e. Tin firm at 54.50c spot and 54c futures. Iron steady with No 1 northern 20.60, No 2 northern 20.50, No 2 southern 21. Lead firm at 7.75 to 7.90c. Zinc steady at East St Louis 6.95c. Antimony spot 18c.
London metals trading report shows spot and futures prices for copper tin lead zinc on May 11. Spot copper £60 12s 6d with futures £61 12s 6d. electrolytic £64 spot and £64 10s futures. Tin £243 17s 6d spot and £245 17s 6d futures. lead £32 12s 6d spot and £32 2s 6d futures. zinc £34 6s 8d spot and £33 7s 6d futures.
Potatoes receipts totaled 83 new and 102 old cars with 807 United States shipments Saturday and 131 Sunday. Market steady with fair trading. Wisconsin sacked round whites quoted at 1.10 to 1.25 and Minnesota sacked round whites at 1.11 to 1.15. New stock No 1 barrels selling firm and moving well while all other stock remains dull.
Hogs receipts 41 000 very active 25 35c higher with top at 13.00. Cattle receipts 22 000 weighty steers abundant slow with modest gains and high quality priced up to 10.85 for heavies. Sheep receipts 21 000 fat lambs steady to weak with 84 to 92 pound clippers around 13.00 and 13.50 for good weights.
Hogs receipts 12,600 with prices 25 to 30 cents higher. Good and choice butchers $12.35 to $12.50, top $12.50, bulk $12.40 to $12.45. Sows $12 to $12.25. Week ending May 9 average $11.36, weight 242. Cattle receipts 7,000 mainly fed yearlings and light steers, mostly steady. heavy steers slow, early sales $9 to $10.25, some loads to $10.50, heifers and bulls firm to up 15 cents.
Stockers and feeders steady with most butcher cows at 6.25 to 8. Heifers 8.25 to 9.75. Bologna bulls 4.85 to 5.25. Practical veal top 9. Packers and feeders 6.50 to 7.15. Sheep receipts 13,000 including 500 direct to packers. Lambs open 25 cents lower, early top fed clipped lambs 13, wooled lambs 14.75 to 15, some held higher.
May 11 report from South St. Paul shows cattle receipts about 4000 with little change for fat steers and yearlings and steady to higher for hogs with 14500 receipts. Cows and heifers sold largely 5.50 to 8.25 while hogs averaged around 11.80 to 12.40 per cwt and calves lower by 25 cents. Sheep receipts about 500, mostly direct offerings, steady to nominal.
Portland market report shows cattle receipts 1295 with steers at 7 to 10 dollars and top 10. hogs receipts 1710 with heavy weights 11.75 to 12.25. lambs light to prime 7.5 to 12.5 dollars. Cows and bulls listed, calves and feeders detailed. market weak to higher for pigs and varied by weight.
Spokane data from May 11 lists cattle prices by grade with primes at 9 to 9.50 and common to fair around 5.50 to 7.50, cows and heifers 5 to 7.75, veal calves 6 to 9.10, stockers 5.50 to 7, hogs steady with good to choice 11.75 to 11.85 and heavy hogs 9.75 to 10.85, sheep market steady with prime lambs 14.50 to 15 and yearlings 10 to 12.
The Quebec government supervises a regional effort to develop salmon canning in Eastern Canada, aiming to boost local processing capacity and promote regional fisheries industry growth.
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