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Show PROFIT-TAKING . IN FUSION Every Rush of Buying Orders Met bv Those Anxious to Sell. FOREIGN INFLUENCES ARE HELPFUL TO VALUES Twenty Millions of Loan-Expansion Proves Surprise of the. Bank Statement. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 22. There was a disposition to press storks for sale to take profits on the stock market, today. to-day. .Even where there was a further rush of buying orders they wero met by selling orders of (lint character with effect on prices. Tho coming dividend action by United States Stool at next Tuesday's quarterly meeting absorbed a large share of speculative surmise. The minor that showed most vitality and persistence vrns that an extra dividend divi-dend in addition to the regular 1 per cent quarterly would bo declared sufficient suf-ficient to bring tho distribution for tho calendar year up to it per cent. This would, call for three-fourths of 1 per cent, besides the regular dividend. The prevalence of this rumor proved a powerful pow-erful incentive to speculative buying of the stock and carried the price up to Sflc, a rise of 7 3-So over the Jow" nrioc touched in the slump on "Wednesday. "Wednes-day. The force of this movement pulled nrices up from the depression caused by the heavy selling of the earlier part of the session. foreign influences were helpful to values. ' the easing money markets abroad and the increasing satisfaction of financial London from the course of the English elections having a beneficial bene-ficial effect. Related covering of shorts put out during the demoralized period of the market earlier in the week was a material factor in carrying prices upward up-ward towards the close of the d.-n-. The abrupt interruption to the rise in" United Unit-ed States Steel, which caused the stock to react over 2 points, wiping out its rapid advance, made the closing tone very unsettled. The surprise in the' bank statement was the $20.00.000 loan expansion reported re-ported by the clearing house banks. This showing is a revelation of the heavy requirements of syndicate subscriptions sub-scriptions during the week, in the period per-iod of rapid curtailment of stock market mar-ket loans. Bonds wore steady. Total sales, par value. .l,7nf,000. United States 2s have declined 1-S per cent on call during ihe week. New York Bonds. U S rcf 's rcR-.lOOJMiu Mot lis S" do coupon 1006 fnt .Mcr Mn -Us. CM do f rc 1013 Japan Is .. '.. SSL do coupon ....lOIJi do Us :5t do 4s re? IHJIK C So 1st :is. TM do coupon 1113'Iy Shore deb 4s. .'M Altls Ch 1st 5s. S.'ii j & X unl -Is.. 9: Am Afrrl 5s 10lM M K & T 1st Is. 00i A T & T ev ls.J0.1i. do ;en Ha .. .00 Am Tob As 77 Mo Tac Is" SI do fis lOHl'N Tin of .M -tjs. OtJ Armour Co -lis. !."$' X Y C kii ."!Js. . 01 Atch pen Is ...100V do deb Is 'ijiA do cv 4s 11S N1' XII & TI Gs.VU'i do cv 5s .. ..llSiiXor & XV 1st Is. 09 At C Line 1st -13. 911 do cv .Is 101 Ball & Ohio Is. 0S?,Xor Pac Is 102L' do 3js 024. do 3s 7t do S W Sis .. mO S I, if Is ... ? R II T cv -Is .. S-S 1 I'enn cv rls,19lr 0C4 Cent of Ga as . . 10SR do con Is 1012 Cent heather Ss.100 iltoad sen Is .... 09J. C RR of X.1 cr 5s.12-3 S I. & S F fp Is S3; dies &. O Us... 1021' do Ken 5s 88J do rc-f S I, S W c Is.. 7SB OhI & Alt 3s.. 75 do 1st 4s... 9" C Yi fi Q Jt 4r . . 97 Sea A Line Is . . Sfi do ecu Is .... 99 So Pac col Is . . ICJ C M & S P p iijs R93 do cv Is .. . .10?.h C III & r col -Is SOU do 1st r Is .. 9IZ do eol Ss . . . .1022: South Ry Rs 1D9 do rfdgr 4k 91i do gen 4s .... S0i Colo Tnd ns SI i: Union Pac Is ..101 Colo Mid -Is SOij do ev 4s 112 Colo vt So cx -las 07i do 1st r Is 971 Del & II cv -Is. 100 IT S Rubber Rs..l0l D fc R G Is ... OBJ' I S St 2nd F.s..lor. do ref cis 91 ! Ya Caro Ch ns.. 09 DlKlll ris 72iiWabfisU 1st ns..Ill Erie p l Js .. ., Sitf .Wabash 1st 5s. .1115 do pen Is 70 do &. ex Is . . 74 do ser A 79J West Md -Is .... S'.J do icr B 71 West El cv 3s 92 Gen El cv 5s... 143 Wis Cent 4s ... 9li III Cent ref 4s. 99J Mo Pac cv T.s... US I London Wool. By Associated Press. I.OXI50N'. .Tan. 22. A pood selection, aniountinp to ll.flSr, baU-s. was offered, at the wool auction sales today. The wool was readily taken by all .sections at full prices. 'Well -pro wn crosnbreds were in keen demand for America and home trndo and scoured merinos were taken for the eontlnent at hardening rates. Next woek 79.100 bales will In: offered. |