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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1974
Page
6
The Midwest faces limited weather improvement as grain prices jump. Soybeans hit season highs with Illinois blooms at 20 percent and Iowa at 40 percent, while corn prospects worsen in Nebraska drylands. Futures rise on export hope, with metals also climbing amid inflation fears and OECD price outlooks.
NYSE closing prices show mixed performance as inflation and high interest rates pressure stocks. Paine Webber says technical rebounds may occur but volume decline signals weak buying, with analysts noting a potential selling climax but not guaranteed.
The New York Stock Exchange closing list reflects varied performance across numerous names led by industrials and consumer goods. It includes Cerinth, ChaseM, CocaCola, Colgate, Exxon, DuPont, IBM, and many others with varied percent changes and price levels.
Today's closing quotations show London gold at 148 unchanged, silver at 4.90, platinum at 242, cane at 88.8, wheat 4.57, corn 3.63, soybeans 8.2642, live cattle 47.45 and hogs 39.65 per unit. Miscellaneous stock figures follow with varied gains and losses across companies and commodities.
Alfred O. P. Leubert, CEO of Willcox & Gibbs, maintains the stock market is the last noninflated commodity and predicts a rebound as small investors return. He cites Arab oil revenues, Treasury policy, and wage price controls’ end as factors shaping a flattening of prices in six to eight months. He notes apparel demand rising, quotas aiding domestic confidence, and youth demand driving apparel growth.
The report lists selected stocks trading on the American Stock Exchange in New York, detailing listings and daily activity for investors and traders.
Dow Jones closing averages show declines with the Industrial average at 784.57, down 11.11 points, Transports at 163.30 off 2.05, Utilities at 70.62 down 0.41, and Stocks at 239.31 down 3.03. Turnover reached 10.42 million shares.
Gittings Inc a portrait photography firm with 90 cities 30 photographers and five studios relocates its headquarters from Houston to Phoenix and plans a early 1975 amateur photography school focusing on aesthetic self directed learning rather than technical instruction led by Paul Gittings in the Biltmore Fashion Park facility.
The Arizona Corporation Commission fined A-1 Building Wreckers $1,800 for highway safety violations. Chairman Ernest Garfield said the company showed flagrant disregard of private carrier safety rules and failed to follow Motor Carrier Enforcement guidance. A one year compliance could suspend the fine, with possible contempt penalties up to $5,000.
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