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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1908
Page
10
Financial writers note divergent trends with money markets improving abroad as central banks cut discount rates in Germany and England, while U S railroad earnings hint at December losses. Industrial dividends fall and freight car counts drop, signaling cost cuts and retrenchment amid a fragile recovery.
Boston copper gossip notes a firmer copper market despite Butte signals of no mine resumption. Baltic lode at Isle Royale prompts two new shafts while Atlantic Mine shows Baltic under the twelfth level. Raven, East Helena, Black Hawk and Mammoth developments add optimism. Shawmut line income and related company results are disclosed.
Special report from Pittsburg notes marked improvement in tinplate and billet trade as mills restart. American Sheet and Tinplate opens Greer mill at New Castle and La Belle mine near Wheeling boosting capacity. Carnegie Ohio works restart billets for Newburg mill and tinplate bars. Prices firm across billets, sheet bars, and Bessemer output while deliveries and contracts adjust to renewed activity.
The Federal Weather Bureau forecast for Monday and Tuesday calls for fair conditions across the cotton states. North and South Carolina may warm with fresh easterly winds, Georgia and eastern Florida fair with light to fresh easterly winds, western Florida Alabama and Mississippi fair with east to south winds, Louisiana fair with warmer northwestern portions, eastern Texas fair with fresh southeast to south winds, western Texas fair with similar winds, and Oklahoma Arkansas fair with a warmer trend Monday into Tuesday.
For the first time in many months Paris trading has been fairly active as England's bank rate was cut and New York banks showed strength, encouraging speculators on the Paris Bourse this past week.
A historical overview notes a recent Albany bill to repeal 1858 laws forbidding short selling and revisits 1812 and 1830 statutes. It recalls stock exchange speculation, Continental money era shinplasters, and New York's evolving stance on short sales and contracts involving stock certificates.
The Economist index shows a steady drop in England's commodity prices from May last year through December 1907, with the total index sliding from 2601 in May to 2310 in December. The magazine notes a two year upward run ending in May 1907 and an incomplete return to normal levels, as prices remain above 1904 and 1903 levels.
Berlin reports another period of gloom as the Reichsbank and Bank of England hold rates steady. Banks absorb funds via new industrial flotations, shipping shares slide, steel and bank stocks retreat, American rails rise on renewed demand.
exports of iron and steel manufactures from the United States rose sharply with 1907 totals near 200 million dollars. machinery dominates the export mix with about 95 million, including heavy figures for locomotives cash registers printing presses and various metalworking and mining tools. the eleven months ending november show continued strength, pointing to a full year near the 200 million mark.
Directors of the Van Norden Trust Company present a loving cup to President Warner M. Van Norden in appreciation of his handling of company affairs during the October financial flurry. The eighteen inch high cup was designed by Marcus.
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