Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-12-08 | Page 23 | Prices Show Firmness in Quiet Trading on Stock Mart

SHOW FIRMNESS SS IN QUIET TRADING ON V STOCK MART ART LEADING ISSUES HOLD INTEREST By EUlER G Co United d Press Financial Editor NEW YORK Dec Dee 8 Trading 8 quieted on the stock exchange Tuesday Tues Tues- day with prices firm in all sections More interest was displayed forthe forthe for forthe the leading issues although the lesser esser lights continued active American Zinc which sells at S 54 n was the tha most heavily traded Large volume also was noted In such stocks as Paramount Warren Brothers Electric Power Power- and Light and Elk nom Horn Coal pre pre- Automobile Issues steels steel coppers rails raUs utilities and oils Improved fractionally Amusements w we were e r I o 0 ostrong strong under the tho lead of ot the tha Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount issues Paramount first preferred preferred pre pre- fer ed reached a new high at up 4 points point Mercantile stocks W were re bid hid up fractionally Special issues were higher in ninny many instances New Highs Set New highs for tor the year or longer were nada made by such Issues S as American Amer ican lean Zinc Zino preferred at 39 up 3 Electric Power and nd Light 19 8 7 up up- 54 t Elk Horn preferred ot 5 up 8 5 Granite City Steel 8 up tip 3 General Steel Castings 30 39 1 up 3 Hercules Powder 19 up 3 Pittsburgh Pitts burgh Coal Codi 16 18 3 3 8 8 up 1 lU and its 70 UD 5 Pacific Mills 41 up up p 1 and Warren Warre convertible pr preferred pro pre 38 8 5 5 up 3 3 Automobile shares firm all day were in renewed demand near the close on a long list of ot favorable Items for the tha industry The Automobile Auto Auto- Automobile mobile Manufacturers' Manufacturers ass association all le leaders ders except Ford reported November factory sales alt of or motor vehicles amounted to units a gain of 55 65 per cent over October and a a. gain of 12 per cent over November No No- vember 1935 Auto Sales Rise Else Earlier in ln the tho day G General Motors reported its November sales at units the best beat November on record record rec rec- rec ord and the best month since June 1929 General Motors' Motors total sales for forthe forthe forthe the first 11 months exceeded any full year Ye r since 1929 Chrysler Chrysler- corporation reported from Detroit that all Chrysler di divisions divisions divisions di- di visions were were- operating full force after after af af- af ter tel settlement of or the Midland Steel strike Oth Other r Detroit dispatches said that automobile dealers have been besl besieging ging their factories with orders to fill heavy d demand mand from custo custo- mers ners