but Market Steadied Up on Thursday: Prospective Conclusion of Anti-Japanese Boycott Apr.
'A quiet tone was experienced in most markets during the week under review. The Yuenfong Piece Goods auction on Thursday totalled 301 packages. Venetians were a little lower. Italians were quite steady and Greys recovered one mace. Whites were slightly of the lower side, It is probable that the steadi tone experienced was due to the Gecrease in quantities, and for Italians, there was some indi of a possibility of improvement in demand in the near future and it may be that we shall see some rise in prices before long. Regarding Greys, evidently the depressed tone experienced last week was stronger than it was meant to be as there was quite a good recovery this week, orders mainly coming from jen tsin and Hangchow.
Whites started off in a somewhat doll manner with little enthusiasm speculators contributed some support. which was sufficient to Mav keep values of certain high qualities quite steady. There was a little doing from the River potts and sine of these higher quality goods recovered a portion of what was Jost last week. Low qualities wer steady to firm, with not mu strength in the demand from Ti tsin, Shipments to Korea of late have shown some improvement but rices show no inclination to rise. Deliveries are on a par with the previous week and Hankow has taken rather fewer Whites.
Owing to the prospective conelusi of the anti japanese boycott, Japanese Yarn has tended to firm up and. there has consequently been less demand for Chinese Yarns, Clear snees from the Mills have also eased to some extent, In their weekly report of China Cotton and Yarn, Messrs. J. Spunt Ca, write: s—
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