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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
25
Wheat closing unsettled after persistent selling and thin demand. May and July contracts slip about 1 1 2 to 2 3 4 cents as traders realize profits and light buying reflects possible price manipulation concerns. Corn and oats follow with declines. hogs and provisions show minor shifts amid weak export activity.
Prices for staple vermal products listed with year ago comparisons. Coverage notes outdated figures from leading traders and New York refiners, including butter lard sugar textiles and coal products. Minimum readable items show ranges and percentage changes for several commodities in York and nearby markets.
Yadkin River Power Company offers first mortgage bonds secured by all physical properties, privileges, and franchises including hydro electric generation and transmission systems in North and South Carolina. The company reports average net income over 2.40 times interest charges for seven years ending 1924 and over 2.34 times for the year ending March 31, 1925. Hemphill Noyes & Co acts as agents with offices in New York Bridgeport Philadelphia Boston Pittsburgh Baltimore and Syracuse.
The page compiles New York stocks with prices and highs and lows for many firms as of yesterday. It notes farm production pressures and wheat availability, referencing March 1 assessments by the Statistics Company and market moves across industries including autos, chemicals, and tobacco.
A 1925 farm market brief notes corn and grain supplies on farms near 40 percent above 1921 levels, with near completion of a bumper carryover and reduced cotton plus other crop prospects. Analysts expect prices to stabilize as farmers adjust production to consumer demand and public purchases.
The market report lists varied dairy and produce prices with creamery batch figures and whole milk at different cents per pound. It notes stock changes, average prices, and regional fluctuations across items like cheese, butter, eggs, potatoes, beans, dried fruits, and poultry, reflecting a busy wholesale market.
New York reports bond prices rising to near yearly highs as United States Treasury securities lead gains. Higher prices, easier money conditions, and renewed demand lift government notes and foreign bonds. Utilities and rail stocks also advance before profit taking trims some gains.
Directors at several industrial firms announced dividend actions benefiting stockholders. Marland Oil resumed payments with 74 cents per common share payable June 30, US Realty and Improvement declared a 10 percent stock dividend plus cash dividends of 2 percent common and 1 34 percent preferred. Eastman Kodak and United States Gyreum added extras to regular dividends. North American Utility Securities declared quarterly preferred stock dividends.
Closing prices for government bonds list Liberty 8 1-25 at 100.30 and first four notes around 102, with second and third issues near 101.10 and 101.27. Fourth note trades at 10214 with Treasury items noted at 162.5 and 1064.
Irregular quotations for currencies in New York on May 13 show British pound at 484 7 and 485 1 4 in cables, with various banks rates. Other nations include France 620. Germany 23 80. Holland 40 16. Argentina 39 67. Brazil 10 20. Tokio 42 1 16. Shanghai 75 1 4. Montreal 300 1 32.
Cotton markets in New York May 13 show quiet trading with steady futures. May 2194, July 219, October 2180, December 2199, January 2170 with slight daily changes.
In New York on May 13 Copter reports steady electrolytic and futures at 12 58 for Tin with spot near 5450 and futures 6412 Zinc and Antimony futures hold. East St Louis lists spot and futures at 630 to 700 while steady Tend prices remain unchanged.
The New York money market shows steady to mixed conditions with rates moving slightly. Call loans on acceptances sit around 2 4 45 percent, time loans show mixed collateral and 60 to 90 days at about 3 3 4 percent. Prime commercial paper remains near 3 5 4 percent.
W F Callender, chairman of the Federal Crop Reporting Board, reported to the Department of Agriculture that as sugar prices remain favorable some sugar cane areas in Porto Tuco may be planted to Sea Island cotton. Callender had just returned from a tour of the islands.
In New York on May 13 trading in the curb market showed an overall upward trend with oil shares gaining as higher gasoline prices influenced some issues United Gas & Electric rose 5 1 3 points while Big public utilities led gains Lehigh Power Securities Commonwealth United Light & Power and Western Power posted activity mixed with declines in some industrials New spring business boosted reports and White Rock reached new year highs before the market settled amid mixed reactions in radio stocks.
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