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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1974
Page
6
Readable lines display numerous corporate tickers and fractional price data with percentages, including Exxon, CocaCola, General Electric, Delta Air, and many others. The fragment resembles a column of a stock page with bid and offer-like figures and percentage changes.
UPI reports WAKLE-STREET CHATTER notes Dow Jones struggles to break 680 690 range hurting trading psychology. Firms like E F Hutton Rosenkrantz Ehrenkrantz Lyon & Ross warn of consolidation before a new rally and stress pessimism indicators for a market bottom. Townsend-Greenspan & Co warns durable goods fall may delay capital spending and fuel recession fears.
Today's closing prices from Madda Trading Company Inc. list London gold at $163.50 up $5, Dec silver $5.16 up 0.20, Jan platinum $195 up 1002, Dec copper 59.1 cents up 1.4, Dec wheat $5.26 up 2., Dec corn $3.72 down 4, Nov soybeans $8.20 down 0.20, Dec live cattle $42.80 down 1, Dec live hogs $43.65 down 0.72, Dec fresh eggs 63.35 cents down 0.80, Feb pork bellies $69.40 down 1.15, May Maine potatoes $5.75 unchanged, Dec cotton 42.75 cents down 0.62, Nov plywood $103.90 down 0.30.
Interim Dow Jones averages show declines across sectors as trading ends for the day. Industrials slide 13.54, Transports down 2.83, Utilities off 0.87, and the broad market index 3.95 points lower. Volume reaches 12.26 million shares.
Prices dropped sharply on the New York Stock Exchange as investors worried about a recession. The Dow Jones lost 12.60 to 632.43 near 3 p.m. EDT after declining 17.83 on Wednesday, with 1,078 issues down and 268 up. Volume for five hours around 12.5 million shares.
The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, at its 58th annual meeting in Phoenix, urges tax breaks to spur thrift savings for mortgage lending and asks Congress and the administration to back programs aiding homebuilding. It warns housing starts may dip below one million and backs restoring starts to 1.8 million. Robert S. Horton of Standard Lumber Co. was elected president.
The act creates a five member Commodity Futures Trading Commission to oversee trading in all commodities and curb manipulation. It empowers the panel to order market actions, register advisers and pool operators, regulate exchange rules, and impose penalties up to 100000 dollars. The measure aims to reduce food price volatility tied to speculative trading while broadening federal oversight.
Talos Systems Inc of Scottsdale announces promotions in its marketing department. Eric A. Doerrer becomes manager of voice graphic products for the Telenote line, and Peter J. Shaw is named manager of data graphic products for Cybergraphics. Both assume full product responsibilities.
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