The price of cotton plummeted on the Cotton Exchange last week, dropping $4.00 a bale in one day. Reason: the U.S. Department of Agriculture had just predicted a 14,413,000-bale crop this year, or 524,000 bales above the estimate a month ago. Cotton, which had been selling at 45¢ a pound less than two years ago, when it was short, was down to about 37½¢, five cents above the support level.
Many another commodity has taken the down elevator with cotton. A year ago, hide prices were almost twice those today. Rubber, which at the top of its post-Korea bounce sold for...
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