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Show PUBLIC AGAIN INTERESTED IN NEW YORK MARKET Professionals Dominate, However, and . Pools and Cliques Show Great Activity. I J NEW YORK, Oct. 27. There were indications in-dications in today's trading, the broadest and most active since Monday, of a revival re-vival of public Interest, thnt. element having hav-ing been conspicuously lacking for almost al-most a fortnight. Sentiment seemed lo be more hopeful regarding coming events, the assured success of the new British loan proving a. powerful stimulant. Professionals domina ted t he market, however, this heing clearly demonstrated by the activity of pools and cliques in the iow-priced rails and the specialties em-hracint; em-hracint; sugar, paper, leather and minor industrial groups. More New Records. There were numerous new records, Bet hlfchem Steel leading on its turt her rise of 8 points to H.'iO. Other striking ganls and new maximums were Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies, which rose to lOPj,; Utah Copper. 4"i lo 10(i: Cuba Cane Sugar, 2ft,s lo 75H'. Central Ueather, 4 (o !M'U; American Writing Paper preferred pre-ferred 23i to 4S, and Consolidated Gas of Baltimore 2 to 1 2fi 4- Further advances of 1 to 4 points were registered by the non -dividend rails, latest accessions to Hint division including Wisconsin Central, Cen-tral, Iovm Central, Ontario & Western and Chicago & Alton. Hock Island was again a sirons feature, regaining much of yesterday's decline, but yielding at the close. - Lesser Specialties Go Up. Among the less active specialties, in which advances ran from 2 to 4 points, were Virginia Iron. Coal & Coke; American Ameri-can Snuff and Cast Iron Pipe preferred, while Cuban-American Sugar rose 10 points. Recessions of fractions to over a point set in on realizing during the last hour, but ' coppers moved eontrarlly under leadership lead-ership of UtHh. Hieel yielded a full point, but closer! al a net gain of almost that much. Total sales of stocks amounted lo 1,20,000 shares. No materia alteration was shown by i foreign exchange rates, receipt of an- ! other large consignment of British gold I leaving sterling bills unchanged. Bonds were more steady on reduced of- ! ferings of international issues. Total, sales, par value, $6,470,000. 1 United States bonds were unchanged 1 on call. |