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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1972
Page
3
The listing notes delayed trading activity on the New York Stock Exchange with selection details for prominent equities. Market observers cite liquidity shifts and sector weightings influencing late session decisions. Participants include major banks and investment houses, with price movements noted across several blue chips.
Wall Street trading remained active as the noon Dow Jones average fell 2.78 to 947.40 after earlier gains. Analysts traced the drop to profit taking following strong gains Friday and Monday, with advances leading declines by 7 to 5 on the New York Stock Exchange.
River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 18.56 with sea level 552.86. Early today the high reached 59 at 3 PM and the low 48 at 2 AM. The forecast notes the high temperature for Monday was 59.
Decatur price listings show cotton middling at 20.45 and cottonseed at 40 per ton. Milk products include Grade A milk at 655 per hundred and manufactured milk at 3.20 per hundred for four percent. Wood values range 65.45 to 35 per cord, with pulpwood at 15.25 per cord. Grains include No 2 Soybean 3.25, No 2 White Shelled Corn 1.25, No 2 Oats 0.10, Milling Wheat 1.60, No 2 Barley, No 2 Yellow Shelled Corn 1.25, and No 1 Mile per hundred 200.
NASD quotations show interdealer prices around 10 am with no retail markup. Forecast calls for partly cloudy windy and warmer weather with a 40 percent rain chance today and tonight, colder fair conditions Wednesday, and a extended outlook through Saturday with a warming trend and scattered showers. Temperature highlights include a Monday high of 59 and low of 28, with monthly precipitation totaling 1.28 inches and year to date 11.83 inches.
Cloudiness increases over Alabama as a fast moving cold front approaches from the northwest this afternoon. Scattered thundershowers are expected tonight across the state with fair skies returning Wednesday and cooler highs in the 50s in the north and 60s in the south. Sub freezing temperatures likely in parts of north and central Alabama Wednesday night.
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