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Show I SECURITIES MOVE UP. H Advance in Stocks on tho London aH Market lM LONDON, Fob. 19. The stock exchange 9 last week was active, tho feature being jH heavy buying of first-class securities by Jk professionals In anticipation that cheaper K money will soon bring an outside demand Hj Tho pofllion of the Bank of England is iH becoming stronger through favorable for- -1 o'sn exchanges, allowing gold arrivals to jM increaso the lingo reserve, and an early HI reduction of the bnnk rate Is confidently expected. Consols led the week's advance and touched 0o4, nnd desplto profit-taking H they wore well supported. Over ninety jM other securities advanced In evmpathy. n Peace talk, which Is still Indulged in. j has hod the effect of weakening tho de-HI de-HI mand for Japanese Issues, which further Jm improved, whlio Russian securities maln-j maln-j talned prices well. Americans were stead-H stead-H lly supported, principally from New York. H till Thursday, when reactions occurred. owing to varlouo linfluences, chief among HI which wero the President s order for an Hj investigation of tho Standard Oil company H! and the Enuitablo Assurance company's IH squabble, Prices, howover, only modor- atoly changed during tho week. HI Union Pacific, which closed substanlial- ly higher on tho reported larger earning powers of the company and in antlcipa- HHJI tlon of an early settlement of the North- HH ern Securities caic, was an exception. |