Show weekly review ef trade business throughout the country is active for the season and theoph collections at some points are slow and credits are strained the reports are generally fairly satisfactory bat uncertainty and hesitation affect important branches of production and the industrial outlook does not im prova currency is generally in good even where payments are slowest and credits most strained speculation has been less active and the general level of prices though higher than a week ago in most speculative markets has on the whole declined a little since july ast 1st the average cf prices in speculative markets has advanced per cent with the tendency still upwards while the average advance in all other prices has been 66 per cent with the latter tendency downward these facts indicate activity in trading rather than satisfactory re lations of supply and demand the iron trade is unsettled with aalee of several thousand tons pig here while at philadelphia offers 1 below the market are noted sales of tons steel rails have been made during aba week and generally at terns netting between 31 and 32 bar iron is weaker and the tendency to in demand appears not only in crude but in many manufactured forms of iron and steel wool is not active and prices range 10 to 15 per cent balow those of may laba notwithstanding the decrease in imports and in home productions which shows a ani nt ment of the co lui are firm at recent advances and iu good demand for the season print cloth having this week risen to 3 bidi but cont iund larff supplies cause raw cotton to bcd an eighth the boot and ahon bocim ns is do ing well and it la noted that purchasers are already hurrying up their orders while the leather trade im proves slightly if at all the Ii ehigh coal stride continues and the consequent financial strain i in soma severe the beads ing has decided not to continue the recent advance in wages and dispatches say that the men have already struck several manufacturing establishments have closed for the present among them the great edgar thompson repairs at this season are likely to continue longer than usual if markets do not change on the other hand the all sections astin usually large and tha ira deia holiday goods isbeth large causing A i dalness in some branches of business and at a few other points activity continues in retail trade though I 1 wholesale business exhibits some shrinkage but the general volume I 1 of trade shown in bank clearings outside this city is even now fully as large as last years at this period notwithstanding the expected beading strike stocks have averaged a fraction higher alian a week ago but the market has been exceedingly dull wheat has risen 1 cents oil 3 cents coffee a quarter with better distribution and hogs half a cent and pork 25 cents per barrel tin has been lifted 1 cent and copper is unchanged the sugar market shows no change though the louisiana crop is now reported fully hhas larger than last years exports of wheat shrink as prices advance up to december 1 in wheat and flour bushels has gone out against to same date last year leaving of estimated surplus 13 million bushels more than last years exports for tho remaining seven months it is an encouraging fact that singularly little disturbance has yet appeared in regions where real estate speculation was active and payments of interest on mortgages do not yet beem unusually delayed even when crops have been short A chicago agency having interest due on mortgages january ast 1st had already received more than half the amount december it is observed too that demands for money from the interior diminish at chicago though that city is still drawing from new york and the pressure for money there does not abate the treasury has added to the circulation during the week by increasing its bank deposits foreign trade shows a small decrease in imports while exports from this city for three weeks have been 54 per cent below those of corresponding weeks last year the business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days as reported to K G dun co the mercantile agency today to day friday by telegraph number for the united states and for canada 29 or a total of as compared with a total of last week and the week previous to the last for the corresponding week last year the figures were being m the united states and 32 in canada E G co and broadway new york cember |