The Business Times, 18 April 1977

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) 300/1/77 MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1977 50 CENTS
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF
    • 71 1 Reuter ZAMBOANGA CITY, Sun. A referendum on a plan to turn 13 southern provinces Into an autonomous region ended here today without serious incidents despite a boycott by the main Muslim rebel movement. Christians and Muslims went to the polls peacefully as the military stood on full military
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    • 76 1 AP BRUSSELS, Sun. Some six million Belgians voted for a new parliament and provincial councils today. Whatever the outcome of the vote, the results are likely to follow the trend towards greater sectionalism in this small country. In Brussels alone, the 454 candidates for 34 Lower House seats
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    • 74 1 UPI ANGKOK, Sun. Thai security forces today said a newly completed road built with Australian aid was Insecure and cut short a drive on it by Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock. Reporters travelling with Mr. Peacock said he was to drive 51 km of the 103-km
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    • 52 1 Reuter SALISBURY. Sun. British Foreign Minister David Owen early today reported further progress towards a Rhodesian settlement after more talks with Rhodesian leader lan Smith. He announced earlier that he will fly to Angola today for a meeting with the leader of the Marxist Government there. President
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    • 73 1 Reuter LUXEMBOURG, Sun. Common Market Finance Ministers will draw up a joint Community position for major world economic meetings in the next three weeks when they meet here tomorrow, informed EEC sources said. They said the main Item will be preparations for the economic summit in London
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    • 57 1 Reuter TEL AVIV, Sun. Mrs. Leah Rabin, wife of Israel's Prime Minister, was today fined 250,000 Israeli pounds (5567,700) after admitting in district court that she had violated foreign currency regulations. Judge Dov Levin offered Mrs. Rabin the alternative of serving a year's imprisonment, but her lawyer
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    • 66 1 UPI NEW YORK, Sun. New negotiations will be held here tomorrow to end the three-day-old strike by 35.000 longshoremen against seven major container lines, it was announced yesterday. The strike, which began on Thursday, involves ports from Maine to Texas, but so far only one port on
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    • 47 1 Reuter DACCA. Sun. Monsoon floods have hit northeastern Bangladesh inundating more than 130 sq km. newspaper reports said here today. The daily Ittefaq said the Brahmaputra and the Khowai the region's two major rivers had overrun their banks after last week's heavy rainfall. Reuter
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    • 48 1 Reuter SALISBURY, Sun. Rhodesian and Zambian troops exchanged fire across their Zambezi River border today, the Rhodesian government reported. A communique said that the Zambians started the shooting but no Rhodesians were hurt in the brief clash in the Kazungula area, near Victoria Falls. Reuter
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    • 57 1 Reuter AMMAN. Sun. King Hussein of Jordan left here today for a weeklong visit to London for talks with British officials on the Middle East situation and bilateral relations. His visit precedes a planned trip to Washington for talks with President Carter on the prospects of a
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  • 117 1 THE following list of stocks gives the 10 most traded in on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last week. It gives the turnover in thousands of units, closing prices on Friday and the high and low for 1977. Company Turnover Prices High Low •ow Apr 15 1977
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  • LOCAL STOCK INDICES
    • 99 1 Apr 11 Apr 12 Apr 13 Apr 14 Apr 15 ft B.T Index: 256 84 256.58 260.51 264.31 262 75 Industrials: 247 36 246 68 247.97 248.27 247 91 Finance: 424.57 424 93 426 19 427 63 428 17 Hotels: 157 98 158.02 158 02 158 41 158 55
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    • 103 1 Apr 11 Apr 12 Apr 13 Apr 14 Apr 15 B T. Index: 201 87 201.78 203.16 206.44 206.23 Industrials: 271 86 271 32 271.88 272 65 272 31 ■> Finance: 351 94 352 84 353.73 355.41 354 91 Hotels: 171 99 171 99 171.99 171 99 171.99 Properties:
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  • 1249 1  -  FEFC MUST RESCIND 13.45 pc HIKE By TERESA LIM THE Federation of Asean Shippers' Councils (FASC) Is likely to maintain a hard line at tomorrow's meeting with the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC). It is not expected to budge from its demand that
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  • 810 1 INVESTMENT commitments, totalling $165 million made last year by established and new firms here will begin to pay off from this year for Singapore's electronics Industry. Mr. Brian Lee, secretary of the Association of Electronic Industries In Singapore said that investment In additional machinery by
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  • 360 1 Reuter LONDON, Sun. The Bank of England believes nearly half the potential volatile element of international reserve holdings of sterling has been removed through the overseas takeup of its foreign currency bond offer, British monetary sources said. Britain classes this volatile portion as
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  • 96 1 GENEVA, Sun. Plans for a meeting here this week on the future of an international agreement regulating world trade in textiles have been temporarily shelved because a major participant, the EEC, is not ready for talks, official sources said. > The Community has not agreed on all
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  • 261 1 A CANNY bit of investment in a 5' 2-hectare piece of land bounded by Jajan Tuanku Abdul Rahman and Jalan Kuching appears to have made the Malaysian National Corporation, Pernas, a handy capital gain of Ms 42 million. A recent issue of
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  • 43 1 Reuter PARIS, Sun. Proposals to add between US$lO and $20 billion (5524.6 to $49.2 billion) to the depleted resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are likely to be approved in principle later this month, informed sources said last night.
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  • 408 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. All four of the British tin companies in the London Tin group will be back in Malaysia in June, bringing to virtual completion the scheme under which New Tradewinds will head the largest group of tin mines in the world.
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  • 184 1 Reuter MANILA, Sun. The United States wants to continue maintaining close relations with the Philippines. two top American officials said today. Mr. Richards Holbrooke. US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, arrived here on a regional familiarisation tour and in
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  • 749 2 A time for the professionals FOR those who remember the heydays of late 1972 and early 1973, the Singapore stock market must now appear Just a shadow of Its former self. After the "bubble" burst for which event the Prime Minister has claimed prophetic foresight there have been many false
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  • REVIEWS
    • 1224 2  -  ART By HILTON KRAMER NYT FOR almost as long as anyone can remember, the English art movement known as Vorticism, which came Into existence on the eve of World War One, has been of greater Importance to writers and literary scholars than to painters, art
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    • 975 2  -  By DENYS SUTTON FT ARTISTS often make excellent letter writers and in this respect Michelangelo, Rubens, Delacroix and Van Gogh are outstanding. Such letters are generally read for the light they may shed on artistic procedures but often they contain much of human interest. Ruben's mainly deal
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    • 722 2  -  MUSIC By CKT A SUNDAY composer like Alexander Borodin deserves being written abou In a Monday music cc mn. (Sneeze on Monday. -e for sloth.) What else about it that the guy was plain lai. Borodin took almost io years to finish off his Second Symphony
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    • Article, Illustration
      3674 3  -  By D.G. HEBDIGE Mr. Hebdige is director of Lyall and Evatt. MONDAY: At odd moments, I have paused to analyse the qualities that a successful dealer In stocks and shares must possess, and for a stockbroker, this is as good an exercise as any with which to
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    • 827 3  -  BOOKS By C.P. SNOW FT Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 by Christopher Isherwood. Eyre Methuen. £4.95. 251 pages RECENTLY Mr. Christopher Isherwood gave an 1 attractive and effective television Interview, In which he revealed a personality unassuming, amusing idiosyncratic, a personality which has won much affection from those
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  • Article, Illustration
    1439 4  -  The Singapore Government's policy is to stabilise the population at 3.5 million 53 years from now, reports SOH TIANG KENG SOH TIANG KENG ZERO growth this will be achieved by 2030 when Singapore's population touches 3.5 million. By then, the population "bomb" will be defused completely as growth
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  • 1033 4  -  WIDE international support has transformed Guyana's principal industry. The only cloud on a bright horizon comes from internal political rivalries. in Georgetowr rßy GEORGE HAMALUDIN FT THE Guyana bauxite industry, nationalised for at least two years. Is now stable and successful enough for the merger
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  • 1257 4  -  By JOHN EDWARDS FT THE LAUNCHING of a new I commodity futures exchange anywhere is a fairly rare event. But for Britain there should be even greater Interest than usual In the planned Hongkong Exchange due to open later this month or early May after an
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 435 5 Reuter PARIS, Sun. The US Government Is coming under pressure from Its Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development partners to back the OECD's 20 billion Special Drawing Rights financial support fund more wholeheartedly, International economic sources said. At a meeting of OECD heads
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    • 320 5 UPI Reuter WASHINGTON, Sun. If the United States turns to protectionism to help the shoe, textile or television industries, foreign nations will retaliate against other American manufacturers, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns warned yesterday. Mr Burns said It was 'difficult" to convince the country
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    • 109 5 Reuter PARIS, Sun. French unemployment rose to a postwar record of 1,002,500 seasonally adjusted In March from 972,400 in February, Labour Ministry figures show. The ministry gave no percentage figure but, based on latest population statistics, It is equivalent to about 4.6 per cent of the working
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    • 254 5 Reuter ZURICH, Sun. Central bank governors meeting at the Bank for International Settlement* (Bis) next Monday and Tuesday may discuss a new scheme for monitoring international credit as well as picking up the threads of economic talks in Paris at the
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    • 256 5 Reuter BERNE, Sun. A spokesman for the Swiss Federal Banking .Commission said the commission knows of no further banks facing difficulties in the southern Swiss canton of Tlclno. He was asked to comment after Schwelzerlsche Kredltanstalt announced It may face losses following
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    • 124 5 Reuter AMSTERDAM, Sun. Holland cut Its bank rate to 4'/j per cent from five per cent, effective tomorrow, the Central Bank announced. The rate had stood at five per cent since Jan 7. The promissory note rate will be cut to 5Vj per cent from six and
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 481 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation said pre-tax profit rose to £278.8 million (£153.7 million) on sales of £1.67 billion (£l.lB billion) in 1976. It declared a dividend of 2.78 pence payable on July 1, which brings the year's total to 5.96p (5.42p). The company
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    • 151 5 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. A US District Court has fined Chemical Bank of New York U*****,500 dollars after the bank admitted it had violated the Bank Secrecy Act involving cash transactions of $7 million. In asking the court to accept the guilty plea, assistant US attorney Mr.
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    • 323 5 Reuter WOLFSBURG (West Germany), Sun. Volkswagenwerk said It has wiped out a huge deficit ana is paying a dividend for the first time since 1973. The supervisory board at a meeting yesterday recommended a dividend of five marks to the annual stockholders meeting
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    • 167 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. The Stock Exchange and the Takeover Panel announced moves designed to tighten security In merger negotiations. They said companies should now make an announcement where negotiations have reached a point at which a firm is reasonably confident that an offer will
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    • 182 5 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. Natomas said It had successful negotiations with Indonesia yielding revised new incentives for exploratlon In the southeast Sumatra contract area. Natomas said It will therefore recommend to Its partners an Immediate acceleration of exploration. The Incentives Include a change In the terms
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    • 137 5 Reuter 0 NEW YORK, Sun. Copper Range said Amax, which owns 19.96 per cent of Copper Range's outstanding common stock, said It will probably vote against the proposed merger of Copper Range and a subsidiary of Louisiana Land and Exploration. Copper Range said under the
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    • 127 5 Reuter HONGKONG, Sun. Swire Pacific said it plans to make a scrip issue of onefor five following a buoyant 1976. Consolidated attributable net profit last year rose by a sharp 71 per cent to HK5125.5 million ($73.3 million). In view of the higher profit, which raised
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 874 6 HAVING re-established itself on the profit growth trail last year when pre-tax profit rose 23 per cent to Ms 24 million, Dunlop Malaysian Industries is looking ahead with fresh confidence. Managing director Tunku Dato Ahmad Yahaya, in his latest report to shareholders. says the
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    • 638 6 Current payment Ex Date Date payable Total for Total for the year previous year Batu Lintang Austral Knterp. Talam Mine* (•oodwood Park Hotel Malaysia Sel. ixonuts Kamunting Tin Sthn. Kinta Cons. K.I.. Kepong Deb. M. Breweries Carlsberg Aver Hitam Tin Riverview Rubber Bedford Plantations G.E. Life Tronoh Tasek
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    • COMPANY MEETINGS
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  • WALL STREET AND OTHERS OVERSEAS MARKETS
    • 1037 7 NEW YORK: The stock market lost some ground it gained in the past (our sessions, but closed generally higher In very quiet pre-weekend trading on Friday. President Carter's antllnflatlon proposals, announced In the morning, contained no suprlses (or Investors, analysts said, who described the mood as antl-cllmatlc. The
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    • 280 7 ZURICH: The market generally closed slightly higher In fairly active dealings on Friday, dealers said. Leading banks ruled narrowly mixed with a weaker bias. Despite Its announcement concerning probable losses at Its Chlasso branch, Kreditanatalt declined only slightly In very light trading. Financials followed the general trend with Interfood
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    • 296 7 AMSTERDAM: Shares firmed with sentiment aided by a similar Wall Street trend on Friday, dealers said. In Dutch Internationals Hoogovani gained but Akxo (ell against the trend on Its annual report. Naarden led gains elsewhere. Meneba and Elsevier were major losses. Shippings were weaker where changed and banks mixed.
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    • 373 7 PARIS: The market was mostly narrowly mixed with a slightly firmer undertone on Friday, dealers said. News that private Industry Is expected to Invest more this year encouraged the market although the fall in Industrial production In February offset this, they noted. Usinor fell further against the background of
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    • 307 7 FRANKFURT: The market continued broadly (lrmer rising up to three marks or more In lively trading on Friday, dealers said. Engineerings were led by Man Ord (up 5.50 marks) and GHH (up 4.50). Autos rose 3.50 marks and In stores. Kaufhof (lrmed (our marks. Public bonds gained up to
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    • 170 7 BRUSSELS: The market was mainly marginally higher In more active trading on Friday, encouraged by Wall Street, dealers said. Local issues to rise Included Electrobel, Union Miniere, CBR, Vieille Montagne, Cockerill, Tesaenderloo, Aaturienne, "C'ometra and Arbed. GB-Indo-BM, L'nderg and EBES were unchanged. Sidro, FN, Acec and UCB fell UK
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    • 293 7 TORONTO: The stock market closed higher in light trading with the composite Index up over five points on Friday. Advances led declines 227 to 175. The transportation Index advanced more than 16 points as Alxoma Central Railway at 12 1/4 and Canadian Pacific at 17 3/4 both gained 1/4
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    • 353 7 JOHANNESBURG: Gold shares eased throughout the day In line with European bullion Indications on Friday, dealers said Financial minings were mixed De Beers lost three cents to 410. Platinums and coppers both eased fractionally In places, while asbestos counters recovered some of Thursday's losses. Industrials drifted lower In continuing
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    • 1504 7 On April 15 TRADING In options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange on Friday came to 109,949 contracts compared to 165,911 on Thursday. OPTION APL JLY OCT STOCK Alcoa SO 9 9 95/8 58 3/4 Alcoa 60 1/18 1 916 2 5/8 58 3/4 Am Tel SO
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    • 158 7 MILAN: The market closed mixed In (airly active trading on Friday with operators cautious a(ter Thursday's losses in a market characterised by technical .(actors, bourses sources said. Generate immobiliare, Montedison. Fiat and Pirelli EC (lrmed while other Industrial leaders eased Assicuraiioni Generali and Mediobanca closed higher In Insurances. Financial
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    • 63 7 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Friday 416.5 Thursday 421.0 Week ago closed DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Friday 947.76 Thursday 947.00 Week ago closed LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Friday 120% to 121% Thursday 123% to 123% H.K. HANG SENG Friday 436.66 Thursday 434.40 Week ago closed SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Friday 353 42 Thursday 353.08
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    • 148 7 BUSINESS TIMES INDUSTRIAL GROUP INDICES (BASE YEAR: JANUARY 4. 1971 100) 1977 Week ended High Low Industrial Group 17/4 15/4 POINT CHANGE 210 59 145 90 Automotive 189.42 191.33 1.91 496.57 366.79 Banks. Insurance. 376.95 381.11 4.16 164.62 Finance and Trustees 135 80 Chemicals, Rubber 141.47 144.27 2 80 Products,
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    • 396 7 NYT THE New York stock market made a sharp advance last week as prices were propelled upward mainly as a result of President Carter's move to abandon his proposal for a US$5O tax rebate for individuals. The President said he had dropped his tax-rebate plan because he
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    • 439 7 Reuter HONG KONG. Sun. The Korea Development Bank (KDB) hopes to tap the Japanese capital market late this year or early in 1978, the bank's governor Mr. Woun Gle Kim said. He told Reuter In an Interview here the KDB hopes to issue a 10
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    • Loans
      • 47 7 LONDON. Sun. Eurofima, which finances equipment purchases for Europe's railways, has placed US$2O million of six year notes in the MiddleEast, First Boston said as one of the banks managing the placement. The notes bear a 7 1/2 per cent coupon and were priced at par.
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      • 80 7 PARIS, Sun. More than 80 per cent of the two billion franc state-guaranteed loan to finance loans to small and medium sized French businesses has been placed ahead of its official issue tomorrow, primary bond .market sources said. The 11 per cent 15 year bonds have been well received
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      • 47 7 BERNE, Sun. The City of Malmo, Sweden, will float a 70 million franc. 15 years, 5 3/4 per cent loan on the Swiss market from April 19 to 22. Banque Von Ernst Und Cle said as issuing consortium manager. The issue price will be fixed later.
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      • 40 7 OSAKA, Sun. Dai'el is planning a 100 million Swiss franc convertible bond issue in late May or early June, securities sources said. Dai'el declined to comment on the report. The company Issued a US$3O million convertible Eurobond last July.
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  • COMMODITY REPORTS AND PRICES
    • 197 8 LONDON, Sun Terminal rubber came under light liquidation pressure in late dealings and closed slightly easier on Friday, with losses from Thursday night of mostly 0.40 pence (near May at 52.85 pence) to 0.65 pence per klTo. Prices were generally around the days lows. Turnover totalled 125 lots
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    • 103 8 THE Straits tin price in Penang on Saturday was down $54 to $1,423 on an official offering up five tonnes to 235 tonnes. In LONDON on Friday, Tin on the day fell £97 for Cash and £105 for Three Months In both contracts. The market worked lower under
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    • 268 8 CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE. SINGAPORE NOON CLOSING PRICES PER PICL'L YESTERDAY. Coconut Oil Bulk $110 sellers, old drum $115 sellers, new drum $120 sellers Copra: Mixed (loose) UK Cont $72 hi i vers Pepper Muntok ASTA white f o b. 100% NLW $405 sellers, Sarawak white fob 96% NLW
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    • 117 8 THE following Palm Oil prices were quoted In London on Friday The prices are elf Rotterdam and are quoted In US dollar per ton unless otherwise stated Friday Prev. Malaysia 5% ffa bulk Jne/Jly Sumatra 5% Apl May June July Aug unch unch 652 50 pd 652 50
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    • 50 8 LONDON. Sun Zinc fell £12.50 for Cash and £13 for Three Months on Friday. Continued liquidation forced Three Months down to £382 in the ring before covering and profit-taking purchases partly reversed the trend. The position worked back to £387 on the kerb prior to final business at £384.
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    • 514 8 Source: Swiss Bank Corp IN the Singapore gold market on Saturday, the kilobar was traded In the range of $12,080 to $12,095 in quiet condition. The loco London gold opened at U*****.60/151.90 and closed at the same level In very dull conditions. Source: Singmas The Singapore Chinese Gold and
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    • 98 8 LONDON. Sun —Silver finished unchanged to 0.8 pence lower on Friday. Easier gold and the early decline at New York unsettled the market before endweek covering erased most losses. Three Months traded down to 282.5 pence prior to last ring business at 283.9 pence. Sales were 120 lots. In
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    • 43 8 LONDON. Sun Lead closed £11 down for Cash and £11.50 for Three Months on Friday. The metal followed the general trend with Three Months trading down to £379 In the ring and to £377 finally on the kerb. Sales were 1,700 tonnes.
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    • 379 8 LONDON, Sun. Copper wlrebars lost £18 on the day for Cash and £20.50. For Three Months on Friday. Dealers said the market declined following a sharp fall in New York with further liquidation and trade selling taking Three Months down to £856. Modest covering emerged at the lower levels
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    • 165 8 CHICAGO, Sun. Wheat futures closed at the day's highs with gains of 2 V* to 2% cents a bushel on Friday. The trends In soybean futures were a significant Influence on the day's trading and prices advanced at the opening as beans started strong. Prices weakened as beans moved
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    • 123 8 BANGKOK. Sun. Quiet conditions prevailed in the rice market during last week, with few enquiries received as markets In Europe and Africa were closed for Easter holidays, trade sources said. The Under-Secretary of the Planning Ministry of Bangladesh was scheduled to visit Bangkok last week and trade sources speculated
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    • 74 8 Apr 11 Apr 12 Apr 13 Apr 14 Apr 15 Apr 16 •Tin: $1,390 00 $1,392 00 $1,426 00 $1,450 00 $1,477 00 $1,423 00 Tonne: 233 222 190 251 230 235 t Rubber (S): Closed 195 75 a 202 50b 202 25 b 200 25 b
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    • 700 8 COFFEE continued to feature in fairly active trading In a generally quiet Singapore produce market last week. Commodity sales to overseas during the week was minimal and confined to small lots on consumer account. There was still no sign of the coffee price coming
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    • 276 8 LONDON, Sun. Terminal prices on Friday, eased back off the highs under scattered profit-taking and pre-weekend booksquarlng to close the morning quiet, £41 to £17 up on Thursday night. 1,350 lots were Coffee futures closed slightly easier, £37 to £19 down from Thursday night. Volume was 3,042 lots, including
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    • 152 8 LONDON, Sun. Futures rose steadily on Friday during late afternoon dealings on renewed buying and covering which followed a very steady opening In New York. At the close, prices were at the day's highs t'0.40 to 11.55 up. Sales were 2,773 lots. In NEW YORK on Friday. World sugar
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    • 103 8 CHICAGO. Sun Soybean futures closed with limit gains of 30 cents a bushel In old crop months and September, while adding 22 to 26 cents in other months on Friday. Prices rose as much as the 30 cent limit at the opening, with strength in old crop positions deriving
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 208 8 FAVOURABLE news for the US dollar such as retail sales rose by 2.4 per cent in March and a better outlook for controlling US inflation by Mr. Carter's decision to abandon the personal tax rebate, were more than offset by bad ones. It weakened generally against major European currencies,
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    • 292 8 Asian rates Source: Astley Pearce RATES drifted lower over last week, easing by 1/16 to 1/8. Threes to Sixes trading was slack, with few prime names supporting. Weekly Fed. figure showed an Increase in Ml to five billion and M 2 to 6.8 billion. Short dates were easier, with day-to-day
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    • 308 8 THE tight money situation experienced during last week did not sustain as funds gradually returned to the system and the money market was liquid for the whole week. Some surplus funds were mopped up by discount houses in the range of 1 1/2 per cent and two per cent.
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    • 151 8 Euro rates LONDON, Sun. Eurodollar deposit rates closed mostly unchanged from earlier levels after usual quiet pre-weekend trading on Friday, dealers said. After a steady opening, early interest in some Serlods from West Asia and lngapore quickly faded and one or two longer positions drifted slightly easier by mid-session buy
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    • 349 8 ZURICH. Sun. In the first half of last week, the US dollar suffered sharp losses caused by a substantial increase of the US wholesale price index in March (over 1.1 per cent). Against the Japanese yen, the d-mark and the Swiss Franc, it fell to as low as 270.40
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    • 250 8 NEW YORK. Sun. The dollar on Friday, closed weaker on balance from Thursday night after foreign exchange market operators assessed the antllnflatlon programme proposed by President Carter as disappointing, dealers said. The programme contains little of substance to reassure currency market, which Is particularly concerned about US inflation
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    • 40 8 FOR the week ended Friday April 15, the range of call rates received from Short Deposits (M) Berhad was as follows: BANK FUND V«% to 5Vi% GENERAL FUNDS: 1% to 5% Movements of funds totalled $387 million.
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    • 63 8 OVERNIGHT rate steadied at the 2y» per cent level for the greater parts of the last week, with the exception of Friday, where one rate went down to negative 3/4 per cent (being Liability Base Day) Terms saw little movement, with the One, Two and Three Months closing
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    • 69 8 Minimum lending rates (in ACBC 6 V First Chicago 6\ Algemene Bank 6 J '4 Citibank 6*4 Bangkok Bank 7 HSBC 7 Bank of America 6 1 Indosuez 6*4 Bank of China 7 Malayan Banking 6 j 4 Bank of Tokyo 6*4 Mitsui Bank 6 J Bank Negara OCBC 6*4
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    • 377 8 LONDON. Sun. The dollar closed generally steady in Europe on Friday, but near Its lows of the day. The details of President Carter's anti-inflation programme failed to impress markets, although Thursday's news of the administration's proposed abandonment of the personal tax rebate was still actmg as a steadying influence,
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    • 34 8 FRANKFURT exchanges closing quotes on April 15. US 2.3682/92 Can 2.2535/55 UK 4.060/068 Neth 95 90/96.00 Swltz 93.95/94.05 Italy 2.663/668 France 47.58/68 Japan 0.8620/35 Belg con 6.505/51J Belg fin 6.50/52 Norw 44 90/98
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