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Show WALL STREET MARKET 15 DULL AMD INSIGNIFICANT Dealings Lapse Into Stagnation and Interest in Transactions on the Market Is Entirely Lacking:. - NEW YORK, July 3. Coming between two holidays, today's market was insignificant insig-nificant and unimportant to the last degree. de-gree. Dealings were light and contracted contract-ed at t he outset became increasingly dull at mid-day and lapsed Into stagnation stagna-tion later, the total turn-over barely approximating ap-proximating 250.CKJO shares. Attendance of traders was the smallest of any regular session for many weeks and outside interest was utterly lacking. The short interest found further excuse for attacking special slocks in the tax of 5 to S p.'r cent which the government intends in-tends to levy upon gross earnings of munitions mu-nitions companies and related concerns. Declines of 2 to 4 points were recorded record-ed during the forenoon by various speculative specu-lative issues, the weakest features being L'nited States Industrial Alcohol. Crucible Cruci-ble Steel. Baldwin Locomotive and the Motors. Metal shares also ware depressed by the additional break In copper and allied products In the London market. Mexicans made pronounced recovery on the more favorable outlook In that country, coun-try, and such ill-assorted stocks as mer- can tile marines, Texas company, Sears-Roebuck Sears-Roebuck and I'uhan Cane bugar were fairly .strong thivuRhout. Hails of the investment rhtss were dull but variably better, especially the transcontinental trans-continental group, with considerable activity ac-tivity of gains of a point or more for Southern Hallway and Wabash pivf erred shares. Such minor rails as Iowa Centra! Cen-tra! and Minneapolis .t St. Louis were weak on very I it; lit offerings. The market was weaker in the final hour, improvement being due to rumors that an understanding involving the e;irly removal of our forces from Mexico had been reached. Mexican Petroleum made an extreme gain of -t points and ot her speclaJties recovered the greater part of their losses. Bonds were firm, with a steady inquiry in-quiry for Anglo-French and Canadian issues is-sues at steady advances. Total sales, of bonds, par value, $l,i20,000. United States coupon and registered 2s and registered 4s. as well as Panama 2s, declined It per cent on call, with sales of United States coupon 3s at an advance of i per cent. |