Hogs Jump in Market With Strong Rise
Financial and market news report a sharp rally as hog futures surge, pushing prices higher across trading floors. Traders cite demand shifts and supply constraints contributing to the uptick in hog values.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1969
Page
21
Financial and market news report a sharp rally as hog futures surge, pushing prices higher across trading floors. Traders cite demand shifts and supply constraints contributing to the uptick in hog values.
Stock markets opened lower with declines in several big names while crude and energy shares fluctuated. Analysts cited inflation uncertainty and funding shifts as traders weighed earnings, government policy, and the year’s outlook, with soybeans and wheat futures rising on demand and supply worries.
The Midwest Stock Exchange named Richard Simmons as chairman of its board of governors and Eugene Travis as vice-chairman over the weekend. Simmons is a partner at Blunt Ellis Simmons in Chicago, while Travis is first vice-president at Shearson Hammill & Co. in charge of the firm's western institutional sales division.
ITT planned a public tender offer to acquire Hartford Fire Insurance after a Connecticut official blocked its merger bid. The move followed the insurance commissioner William Colter denying ITT permission to acquire Hartford Fire Insurance Company.
Mrs Herman Haerther of Atkins died recently in Chicago. She was born May 10, 19H, daughter of August and Elizabeth Krug. Survived by husband Herman, five children, three brothers, three sisters, and eight grandchildren. Services Tuesday at St Stephen's Lutheran Church in Atkins. visitation at Fellmer's funeral home in Keystone and at the church Tuesday morning.
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The General Services Administration awarded a 90,481 contract to Gorton N Peterson, Inc. of Garnavilla for remodeling heating air conditioning and lighting systems at the Waukon facility. Work is to be completed within 18 days. Senator Jack Miller of Alabama was notified Monday.
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