Show ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE Speculation This Week Has Been Seen Ac Active Active tive live and asid Strong New York March 23 Bradstreets financial review will Win say Eay tomorrow Speculation on has haa m this thin week l ek developed remarkable activity end and strength t f h the tho latter Iatter feature f being bein mainly confined co to toY what Y are acre known as the standard rail railroad railroad railroad road stocks The principal factor in inthe inthe inthe the market has hs b been bE eIl n the disappear disappearance Car Carance ance of fears tum regarding ding the money market Lost Last WOis s bank statement showed shoed a large l d decrease jr ase in the it item of loans Joans indicating that banks which had purchased ed go bonds for forthe forthe forthe the purpose ef ot converting them into new now 2 per cents and taking out cir clr circulation ouA n were paying pa off art ff those bo boings borro ings This process is likely to bo be a rapid one ene and the ef of money available for stock market purposes s has evidently m increased Rates Bates for call loans were however bOWe eT only slightly ens ea easier ier Ifor and the tha activity of or the stock mar roar market ket kat nearly tends to augment the de do demand demand mand for Dr funds Th TM e Ung of the tha street in into regard to the finel naI outlook is nevertheless one of o o and the disposition to discount the tha effect of o the corry bill upon the bonk bank circulation has been marked Large interests have ve conse conss consequently co felt feit themselves able to give givel support Up l art to their specialties S and at the aase time tim the public both here and LD abroad d lies bas shown mown a R readiness s to r par in tk the movement The t of outside ide buying busIng bu ng was considerably in l i excess of anything which 1 cb the market markt has hag witnessed for some come months month past pasti i Leaden md n has taken a favorable view of or orthe the Ote effects ot of th the currency bill and of or the position of American railroad o prop properties I IAU Alt All the European markets are ar strong upon the belief that the Boor Boer war will wID soon goon terminate and that there will wUl be no political complications of or aa an n international character growing out of ft have haye shown an art advance advae and American stocks were features in inthe inthe the th rise rie m of at values 8 It has been en some ome time since London has been auch tich a large purchaser In this market its buying of ot Atchison the cs Baltimore Ohio Oho and other London specialties producing an im mi impression upon the exchange market which h has been decidedly g to offerings of bills against those for forn n The sudden announce ment of the th purchase of ot the Third Avenue road by b the Metropolitan Street Railway and the sensational ad advance advance advance vance of more mare than fifty points In the f s price not only demoralized demo the bear party in the street but ee cye meted for f a time Urne more or less lee fear that trouble might m ht arise in connection with the short Interest Inter t in the stock No N actual difficulties however hoever developed ta tn this connection and the action of or Third Avenue led to covering of shorts to In other directions and an aided al i material materially ly in Ii stimulating public interest as to tot other t parts of the Mst lIst |