Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-01 | Page 12 | Coffee Futures

Coffee Futures. TORK, March 31. There was a further decline in the market for coffee futures here today under continued liquidation, liqui-dation, while the appearance of a little trade sellings inspired rumors that coffee had been offered from Brazil at concessions. conces-sions. Reports that a German commerce raider was operating in the Atlantic seemed to attract little attention. The market opened at a decline of 0 points and sold off to 7.70c for July and 7.96c for December, making new low ground for the movement on the late months. Closing prices were at the low point of the day, showing a net loss of 6 to 10 points. Sales were reported of 59.750 baa-s. April, 7.48c; May, 7.55c; June, 7.62c; July, 7.fi9o; August, 7.75c; September, 7.81c ; October, 7.S5c; November, Novem-ber, 7.90c: December,- 7.95c; January, S.Otie; February, 8.10c: March, 8.16c. Spot, dull: nominally unchanged. Rio 7s. 9'c; Santos 4s, 9?e. No fresh offers were reported in the cost and freight market, but it was rumored that Brazil was asking for bids. The official cables reported no change in Rio. Santos spots were 100 reis and futures 50 to 100 reis lower. Santos cleared 16.0JX) bags for New Tork and Rio 15,000 bags for New Orleans.