Some essentials like wheat and sugar rose substantially on the wholesale commodity markets during the week ended on July 24, 2004. Other commodities, which showed up trend were plastics, guwar, milk powder, castorseeds but rapeseed and cakes were down in value.
The details could be seen as follows: Kirana items black pepper from Singapore quoted lower at Rs 3950, cloves was down Rs 500 to Rs 9900, gum Arabic up Rs 700 to Rs 3700, poppyseed down Rs 60 to Rs 900, isbaghol bhoosi up Rs 200 to Rs 7300, sago down Rs 25 to Rs 1110, aniseed up Rs 600 to Rs 5400, cumin seed up Rs 600 to Rs 5000, and darchini down Rs 25 to Rs 2550, skimmed German rose by Rs 200 to Rs 4400, Germany II up Rs 200 to Rs 4300, Nurpur up Rs 250 to Rs 5000, Dairy Crest up Rs 900 to Rs 5500, Olden Burger up Rs 400 to Rs 4750 and King of ?? down Rs 15 to Rs 1560, black pepper from Vietnam up Rs 50 to Rs 3400 cloves and Rs 400 to Rs 10,000 and cuminseed down Rs 50 to Rs 5260, plastic mouldings underhead HDPE film Saudia 952 up 50 paisa to Rs 35, Mobile up 50 paisa to Rs 35, TR144 up 25 paisa to Rs 34.75.
HDPE Marlex up 50 paisa to Rs 34.50, LDPE 374 up Rs 2.50 to Rs 40, MG 20 up Re 1 to Rs 40, LLDPE W118 up Re 1 to Rs 35, 7087 up Re 1 to Rs 35, PP film Thai up Re 1 to Rs 36, Kuwait up RE 1 to Rs 36, India up Re 1 to Rs 36, PP tape grade India up Re 1 to Rs 35, Kuwait up Re 1 to Rs 35, Saudia up Re 1 to Rs 35, PP Pak up 86 paisa to Rs 2386, Block up Re 1 to Rs 37, Random up Re 1 to Rs 38, High Impact Pak quoted at Rs 2473, BASF quoted at Rs 2700 and ABS Khumo quoted at Rs 2450.
Elsewhere guar all stations in more than one fluctuation gained Rs 105 to Rs 1500, and better up quoted at Rs 1550, sugar twice gained to be quoted last at Rs 1840, gur better quoted up at Rs 2100, wheat showed up to be last quoted on Friday at inferior at Rs 1175 and better at Rs 1180, khandsari better up Rs 50 to Rs 1850, beetle chana I shed Rs 25 to Rs 2125 and better down and better shed same amount to Rs 2175, beetle dal shed Rs 25 to Rs 2425 and better lost same amount to Rs 2475, gram new inferior down Rs 25 to Rs 2100, and better down Rs 25 to Rs 2150, rapeseed cakes Nawabshah inferior lost Rs 10 to Rs 780 and better shed same amount to Rs 785, rapeseed Dadu inferior shed Rs 10 to Rs 700 and rapeseed cakes inferior lost Rs 8 to Rs 260 and better quoted at Rs 270, cotton cakes fluctuated and was last seen Rs 5 up to Rs 540 and better up Rs 5 to Rs 550, and castorseeds inferior up Rs 50 to Rs 50 to Rs 550 and better put at Rs 575.
FRIDAY'S: Raw rubber Ceylon's RSSV down quoted at Rs 46.50, Latex Semnan quoted at Rs 346 and Thai (G.T.) quoted at Rs 345, unsweetened milk King of Kings up Rs 20 to Rs 1660.
Masoor Iran down Rs 50 to Rs 2050, and better shed same amount to Rs 2150 Tuver Sindh up sharply at Rs 2000, Urad Burma up Rs 40 to Rs 740, wheat Mexi old quoted at Rs 1175 and Rs 1180, sugar inferior up Rs 10 to Rs 1850, better same up quoted at Rs 1870, Irri white inferior up Rs 25 to Rs 950 and better up Rs 60 to Rs 1000, rapeseed cakes inferior up Rs 5 to Rs 265, better down Rs 8 to Rs 268 and cotton cakes quoted at Rs 545 and Rs 555.
SATURDAY'S: Germany skimmed up Rs 100 to Rs 4500, Germany II up Rs 100 to Rs 4300, skim Pak down quoted at Rs 4000.
Black pepper from Singapore down Rs 100 to Rs 3850, mace quoted down at Rs 16,000, nutmeg down Rs 200 to Rs 7600, big cardamom down Rs 200 to Rs 9,000, cloves quoted down at Rs 9100, dry ginger down Rs 150 to Rs 6350, Isabaghol Bhoosi down Rs 100 to Rs 7200, Sago down Rs 20 to Rs 1090, aniseed down Rs 100 to Rs 5000, cuminseed down Rs 200 to Rs 4800.
Tuver Punjab quoted at Rs 2000, wheat at Rs 1160 and Rs 1165, yellow peas down Rs 10 to Rs 1600 and better down Rs 5 to Rs 1640, dal yellow peas down Rs 15 to Rs 1725 and better down same amount to Rs 1765 gram new up Rs 10 to Rs 1850 better up same amount to Rs 1900, gram dal up Rs 25 to Rs 2125 and better up same amount to Rs 2175, bajra down Rs 15 to Rs 1265 and better quoted at Rs 1325, basmati D-98 quoted down at Rs 1500 and Rs 1600, basmati 386 down at Rs 1700 and Rs 1800, wheat quoted at Rs 1160 and 1165.