New York, Mar. 3.
Quiet conditions prevailed in the Cotton market, with no special feature worth mentioning. Some commission house selling was taken up by the trade, while the easiness of securities depressed sentiment. At the close, quotations ranged from unchanged to 3 points down from the previous final levels, Stagnant conditions were witnessed in the rubber market, with sales for day totalling only 80 tons, as buyers' and sellers' ideas were rather far apart. At the last call over, quotations were from unchanged to 5 points down from Saturday.
Values in the Chicago Wheat Pit early advanced moderately on a small mill demand and unfavourable crop vat reports of Winter wheat. Subsequently, however, the market reacted on the unsettled foreign situation and in sympathy with an easier stock market, At the final bell, losses of % to 1 cent were recorded.
New York Cotton New York Rubber Mar.
1041-41—02 May 20.65-70—05 May
1038-38—03 B/A
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