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Show Dullness is marked on new york stock board Day's Transactions Approach Lowest Records for Past Half Dozen Years; Many Issues Not Quoted. NEW YORK, Aug. 7. The dullness of today's market exceeded any full session of the year and approached the low records of the last half-dozen years. Transactions for the five hours amounted to only 123,000 shares, and of this amount 33 per cent represented the first hour's business. Numerous prominent stocks failed of quotation and representative issues registered regis-tered few, If any, material changes. Such hitherto unimportant and dormant issues as International Paper common and preferred pre-ferred were among the most active features, fea-tures, with gains of 1 to 2 points. The only other feature of note was Consolidated Con-solidated Gas, with an extreme gain of 3. Special favorites of recent months. Including munitions and equipments, were apathetic, with speculative interests at low ebb. News pertaining to market conditions was , mostly encouraging, but failed to rouse the list from its stupor. Expectations Expecta-tions of a speedy settlement of the local car strike was preceded by general firmness firm-ness in tractions and the large sales of copper reported at or near 26l cents per pound had a hardening effect on the metal group. Rails were completely unresponsive unrespon-sive to the further gains shown in west- ! ern tonnage and siiortage of cars for j crop-moving purposes. Advices from vari- i ous points dealing with the possible ef- j fort of crop damage In western and northwestern north-western states indicated no restraint on , trade expansion. The only foreign feature was con- j tained in the British trade report for , Julv, imports to the United Kingdom increasing in-creasing by a little more than $5,000,000, I while exports increased by almost SG0,-000,000. SG0,-000,000. The statement was without bearing bear-ing upon the local market for foreign exchange, ex-change, which ruled at last week's final quotations, except francs, which were a trifle easier. The bond market was equally listless with stocks, prices of some speculative issues showing slight concessions. Internationals, In-ternationals, particularly Anglo-French 5s, were under moderate pressure. Total sales of bonds, par value, $2,030,000. U. S. bonds were unchanged on call. |