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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market. 



NEW YORK. 



THROUGHOUT October the rubber market has been very firm, 

 with a steady and improving demand from the factories that 

 has raised the price of plantation rubbers both here and abroad. 

 The fluctuations in prices have been within narrow limits. At 

 the close of the month prices were being strongly maintained. The 

 Brazil market has been practically dead, the increase of produc- 

 tion keeps the price down ; it has become so unimportant that 

 dealers take little interest in it. The market for guayule and 

 balata has also been quiet. Prices for plantation and for South 

 American rubber at the beginning and toward the close of the 

 month are shown in the following quotations : 



Plantation Hevea. September 27, first latex crepe, spot 

 50-51J-2 cents, October-December 50^4 cents, January-March 51 

 cent^ January-June 51-51J4 cents, July-December, 1920, 52 cents, 

 October 24, spot 53 cents, futures 53 cents, July-December, 1920, 

 HYz cents. 



September 27, ribbed smoked sheet 49"^ cents, October-Decem- 

 ber 49f4 cents, January-March 50 cents, January-June 50 cents, 

 July-December, 1920, 51 cents, October 24, spot 52 cents, futures 

 52 cents, July-December, 1920, 52^ cents. 



September 27, No. 1 amber crepe, spot 47 cents, October 24, spot 

 49-50 cents. 



September 27, clear thin brown crepe, spot 46 cents, October 24, 

 spot 44-46 cents. 



September 27,- No. 1 roll brown crepe, spot 36>2 cents, October 

 24, spot 40-41 cents. 



South American Para and Caucho. Spot prices : Septem- 

 ber 27, upriver fine 54 cents, islands fine 47 cents, upriver coarse 

 2iy4 cents, islands coarse 21J^ cents, Cameta coarse 22 cents, 

 caucho ball iiy4 cents. October 24, spot prices practically un- 

 changed. 



Islands, medium 



Islands, coarse 



Madeira, fine 



Acre Bolivian, fine 



Peruvian line 



Tapajos fine 



CAUCHO — 



Lower caucho ball 



Upper caucho ball 



M.\NIC0BAS — 



Ccara negro heads 



Ceara scrap 



Manitoba (30% guarantee) 

 Mangabeira thin sheet 



CENTRALS— 



Esmeralda" sau.iagc .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' 



Central scrap 



Central scrap and strip... 



Central wet sheet 



Guayule (20% shrinkage) . . 

 Guayule, dry 



AFRICANS— 



Niger flake, prime 



Benguela. extra No. 1, 28% 

 Benguela No. 2, 32^%.... 

 Congo prime, black upper. . . 

 Congo prime, red upper.... 



Rio Nunez sheets and strings 



Conakry nigeers 



Massai sheets and strings.. 



GTJTTA PERCHA— 



Gutta Siak 



Red Macassar 



BALATA— 



Block, Ciudad, Bolivar 



Colombia 



Panama 



NEW YORK aUOTATIONS. 



Following are the New York spot quotations, 

 ago, one month ago and on October 25, the current 



plantation hevea— 



First latex crepe 59 



Amber crepe No. 1 56 



Amber crepe No. 2 55 



Amber crepe No. 3 54 



Amber crepe No. 4 53 



Brown crepe, thick and thin 



clean 53 



Brown crepe, thin specky... 44 



Brown crepe, rolled 36 



Smoked sheet, ribbed, stand- 

 ard quality 57 



Smoked sheets, plain, stand- 

 ard quality 54 



Unsmoked sheet, standard 



quality 50 



Colombo scrap No. 1 40 



Colombo scrap No. 2 38 



EAST INDIAN— 



Assam crepe 



Penang block scrap 



PONTIAXAK — 



Banjermassin 



Palembang 



Pressed block 



Sarawak 



SOUTH AMERICAN- 

 PARAS — 



Upriver fine 62- 



Upriver medium 56 



Upriver coarse 37 



Upriver weak, fine 



Islands, fine 



49^ @ 

 46'A@ 

 45'^@ 



37 @ 

 48"^ @ 

 45 @ 

 42 @ 



11 @I2 

 12H@ 

 22'A@ 

 09Ji@ 



52J^@S3 

 50 @ 



RECLAIMED RUBBER. 



The reclaimed rubber market has shown marked improve- 

 ment the past month. Boot and shoe reclaims have been in 

 strong demand due to activity in the carriage cloth, automobile 

 topping and insulated wire trades. There has been slight im- 

 provement also in the call for tire reclaims by the mechanical 

 goods trade. Prices remain unchanged from last month's quo- 

 tations. 



NEW YORK aUOTATIONS. 



October 25, 1919. 

 Subject to change without noti< 

 Standard reclaims: 



Friction 



Mechanical 



Red 



Shoe 



Tires, auto 



truck 



In 



THE MARKET FOR COMMERCIAL PAPER 



gard to the financial situation, Albert B. Beers, broke 



rubber and commercial paper. No. 68 Willii 

 ^ises as follows: 



'During October there has been 

 t-of-town banks, and the best rubl 

 • cent, and those not so well kno 



ANTWERP RUBBER MARKET. 



New York City, 



ng ranged from 9.45 



