Show LiTTLE bITTLE DOING V IN WAlL STREET STREETS I S V lethargic a Surprise V to the Speculators JANUARY BOOM EXPECTED OUTSIDE PU PUB LI iI NOT V ING nr IN STOCKs STOCKS V Nw New York YonI Jun a market markt is s there Was us for tor stocks today was s to 10 testing operations bY professionals fu in attempts to discover the trend or of t the e market The attempts were NI for lh the simple reason that th the mat ket held no trend There was a condi condition hon tion of lethargy w with prices very n nto nea neato to last nights level The Tho undertone Is undeniably firm and such testing opera as the profesSionals venture upon arc Indicative of a spirit of hopefulness for higher prices l Fr r several days past UI the early transactions have been U light bt orders following recessions and the disappointing fact is developed that traders are alone In the marl market t s condition of sp speculation is is n a surprise to those who looked looke d for active with the V January con congestion or of supply and the effort I to find for tor It to vari various van vanous ous surmises The natural accumulation i of C money In New York is modified to some HOmo extent b by tite tie outgo of f gold ancI nut next neat weeks requirement of for tor forthe the return ot of deposits Is Subject for consideration But the al almost almost most plethoric condition of the morley morie t t rates pre make this an improbablE explanation nati nation m for Cor the neglected speculation The unprecedented rush of depositors at the thc local savings banks this week Is offerEd as part explanation of oC the diver diverSion slon Sion of investment funds Jh the attraction bein being the advance In the Interest rate to depositors offered by man many of the banks Then there is some distrust of f the 1 level el to which prices had been In iii anticipation of oC the Ja January nuan movement The rise ot of a few tew special st stocks left indeterminate tone or of the tho market un unchanged Unchanged changed up to the tho close The movement or of bond prices was as ir 11 irregular re regular ular but there was a well defined activity In the market Total sales par I value United States bonds were unchanged I on call |