Business: Wheat Week

BUSINESS & FINANCE

When the august managers of the Canadian wheat pool take snuff, the whole world sneezes. Last week in seven major markets on three continents grain traders were confounded by the most extraordinary piece of news about the Dominion pool since it was started in 1924. The moment the news was known a dark storm of selling broke over the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City markets, tumbling prices the limit of 5ยข in one day. In Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went...

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