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Show 1 Coffee Futures. NEW YORK, Dec. 9. The coffee market mar-ket showed continued strength today on a renewal of Kuropean buying and a further fur-ther advance In cost and freights. Fu-. turcs opened at an advance of to 7 points and, after a moderate reaction as a rcpult of realizing, sold about 28 to i i points net higher during the early afternoon. aft-ernoon. Business was somewhat, more active than it was yesterday, but there was comparatively little coffee" for ;sale, and It did not require largo buying or ders to send prices upward.' The close was a shade off from the best under realizing, but from 23 to 35 points net higher. Sales, 43,000 bags. December, G 4c; January, 6.5oc; February, 6-6:io; March, 6.73c; April, fi.S2c; May, 6.9J c; June, it. 74c; July, 7.Rc; August, 7.72c; September, 7. SOc; -October, 7.S7c; November, Novem-ber, 7.04c. Spot, firm; Rio 7s, 73rc ; Santos 4?, 101c. Cost and freight offers were generally higher and some shippers were paid to be asking an advance of fully 20 nolnts. |