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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1976
Page
5
New York stock quotations show the Dow Jones average slipping while gains in several industrials and consumer goods shares offer mixed signals. Investors watch price movements across major blue chips including ConEd, General Mills, and Exxon as trading closes near session lows.
A dense AP financial ledger lists noon prices for numerous stocks and instruments on the American Exchange and related markets. It shows last, high, low, and percent changes for diverse issuers, banks, oils, and industrials, with figures for many named companies and holdings.
New York trading remained quiet as the Dow Jones average fell 4.65 to 936.17, extending a two week slide. Volume reached 11.76 million shares with losers outnumbering gainers about two to one, as doubts about the economy and negative sentiment weighed on investors. Bright earnings from E-Systems and Parker Pen offered limited relief.
Commodity price quotations from Madda Trading Company list London gold at 114.50 up 1.25, IMM Dec. gold 114.60 up 1.10, Dec. silver 4.1670 up 3.9, Dec. copper 56.10c down 0.40, Dec. wheat 2.9434 up 3, Dec. corn 2661 up 0, Nov. soybeans 6.25 down 0.14, Dec. soybean meal 178.60 down 1.50, Dec. soybean oil 20.62 down 0.36, Dec. live cattle 41.72 up 0.07, Dec. five hogs 42.22 down 0.35, Feb. pork bellies 52.85 up 0.13, Dec. fresh eggs 0.6495 up 0.75, Nov. plywood 164.80 up 4.30, Dec. cotton 80.31 down 1.81, Mar. sugar 9.26 down 0.20.
World bankers in major centers back Mexico’s economy with hundreds of millions of dollars even as Mexico faces talk of another peso devaluation. A month after President Luis Echeverria’s devaluation, Mexico City papers debate the impact and accuse a collective hysteria.
Bankers from the United States and Europe announce multi million dollar credits to Mexico as the peso slides. Analysts say the devaluation improves Mexico's creditworthiness by boosting foreign exchange potential, despite domestic gloom and wage/price adjustments imposed by President Echeverria.
Town Hall panelists at a three day meeting in Arizona stress expanding manufacturing and tourism while not neglecting mining and agriculture. Growth is seen as likely and beneficial by about 125 participants with housing for lower and middle income families debated but unresolved. Some fear loss of prime farmland to urban housing and discuss a vacant land tax to spur development. Taxing tourist goods is favored cautiously to avoid heavy burden on residents. Differences arise over growth and recent arrivals echoing a stance against rapid in migration.
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