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Show LONDON STOCK MARKET, Buoyancy First of Week Gives Way to Weakness. LONDON. March 10. Tho recent firmness firm-ness and buoyancy of tho stock market havo given way to soino weakness or natural reaction, duo partly to tho postponement post-ponement of tho Russian loan and tho feeling of unrest in Paris which was manifested In tho selling In that quarter brought about by events In Manchuria. Money was kept short last week by tho acquirements of tho stoclc exchange settlement set-tlement and tho notation of various new issues of bonds, but supplies will beeomo groatcr next month because tho postponement postpone-ment of tho Russian loan will cause French banks to find difficulty In profitably profit-ably employing their abundance at homo and naturally will increase tho balance here, whilo tho hugo reserve of tho Bank of England points to probabilities of ease in tho near future." Tho conclusion of tho heavy settlement showed a largo bull account for a rlso which the bears promptly took advantage of, tho speculative American markot, which recently has been thought top heavy, being perhaps tho least sensitive, and yielding to a larger extent than the others, shows the most loss on tho week, though It finished llrmer under ronowed support from tho Continent. |