The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-08
FINANCE AMI TRADE.
IN" Features or the Money aud Stock
Markets,

NEW YORK. Dec. Money on call
easy AZ lh.U2 per cent; last loan = per
cent closed at liaU2 per cent. Prime
mercantile paper iTJ per cent. Sterling
exchange weak with actual business In
bankers bills at 81 SGlsQr4 SG4 FOR de-
mand and 81 S3iaGi 1914 for 60 days.
Posted rates 81 SibQi NE and 81 IS
Commercial bills 81 S@A. bar silver
GJtkc. Silver certificates 6jikNGJLC.
The stock market to-day wlE irrcg1I-
lar rs TO the movement OF prices. 4
heavy undcrtOnc was noted throughout
and the speculation at times b0rdcrrl on
absolute staSnatiOn, pending the publ
cation or the Presidents message. Sub
seluent 10 the announcement, n OF
a disturbing character in connection
with the supplementary report OF SeCre-
tnry or Sta;c Olncy and the references
or the President TO Union Pacific and
trusts encouraged selling. The market
was almost exclusively professional, and
only in the last half OF tI.r final hour
was there 20 be noted an approach TO
animation. The inltlas prices were hut
slightly different from Saturdays final
iEurc5, Ut the appearance OF foreign
selling orders and pressure by the bears
against the hiIh-prlced spcCialtics
caused rrcess!0ns. Tobacco and Mnnhlt-
tan losing about a paint. business WAS
restricted, however, and at the low point
supporting orders were issued ,whicl
started covering and moderate buying
Tor the long account and carried the list
f~rIctlonally above Saturdays final
prices. The ensuing dealing We're un!n-
tcrestinS n were on n limited scale,
until the iinal hour. when some sharp
changes occurred. The late operations
NIrHrt4 ORA HIs Inc - tv.E--nf 4s,1-,a,r
downward was evident. Sugar, Man
haitian. Louisville n Nashville. the
Changers and Union Pacific yielded Ia
IL per cent from the top figures or the
day.
Railway bonds were moderately act>
I've. hut generally urn.
Governments wcr'. neglected. bu; firm.
Silver certificates were slightly lower
n; 6jiSG on sales OF Sl0.GO.
Tn. total sales Of stocks today were
1887 shares.
Evening Posts London financial cable
gram:
The recovery IN mines stimulated all
the stock markets here to-day. mines
having been the weak spot. The rrcov-
cry In kaitirs was due TO better reports
from the deep level mines. { purchases
for the Continent and to covering by
''R''E ~ 1 4lt SfANi'lIltAlA u btElU w.
morrow. II is impossible TO say wheth-
"r the recovery IS anything more than a
spur;.
y sharp rise In brazilian and Other
such American stocks was also n feature
to-day. Home rails were dull through
fear NJ labor difficulties.
Americans Were quiet. but with Il very
good tone, the closing being At the best.
The tone OF Americans Is becoming bull
Ish.
Short money Is very easy. Il Is belicv-
ed In good quarters that II the discount
rate here falls 10 ~. large supplies OF
American bills will come forward.
The present quotation IS rs.
The foreign trade returns OF Great
Britain FOR the month or November were
Issued to-day. They show an Increase
In Imports OF merchandise as compared
with November. 1895. OF ga 1876. COJ end u
decrease OF Ct 900, vvO In exports. The
noteworthy feature In the import re-
turns is NJ increase OF 2.1j3,000 pounds in
the cotton receipts from the United
States.
The Paris and Berlin markets were
steady.