New York, Mar. 5.
The cotton market early advanced on speculative buying, higher Bombay cables and covering by shorts. Later, prices pa LIH; reacted on lower Liverpool advices and liquidation. Finally, the market again advanced on trade and foreign buying and closed firm and fairly active, with quotations ranging from 6 to 9 points Prices in the rubber market to-day eased on lower cables, mixed dealer trading, scattered and tired London liquidation and the quietness of the spot market, At the last call-over, losses of 8 to 13 points were recorded.
Wheat priges in Chicago ruled steady on buying based on the theory that very little moisture of importance has been received in the south-west. At the final bell, quotations were from unchanged to % of a cent, down:
New York Cotton New York Rubber
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