Paris, Feb. 24.
The tone on the Paris Bourse took a slight turn for the worse during to-day's session.
Light liquidation affected most counters including internationals which, however, lost the least owing to the firm exchange market—Havas The annual report of the Bank of Mexico on Mexican foreign trade to-day showed a favourable balance of trade amounting to 155,000,000 pesos for the first ten months of 1937. Mexico's favourable balance of trade in the corresponding period of 1936 was 261,000,000 pesos.
The decline was said to have resulted from a decrease in metallic reserves totalling 84,690,000, pesos, the report said. Bank officials said, however, that they believed existing reserves were sufficient to maintain the pegged value of the peso at 36 to the United States dollar—United Pre
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