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Show BRADSTREET'S REPORT. ! Peace Talk Has Had Sobering Effect on Market Conditions. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Bradslrcet's tomorrow to-morrow will say: Talk of peace In Europe, easily the foremost fore-most factor of ttie week, has had a fourfold four-fold effect. It has produced uncertainty regarding the time when peace may come to pass, developed conservatism as to new far-off business, tended to shade heretofore hereto-fore highly keyed views as to prices and buying and for a spell caused widespread liquidation in speculative market quotations. quota-tions. In sum, the net result has been of a sobering character, bringing in its wake less marked speculative ambitions, more tempeiHte views, and the permanency perma-nency of high prices. Weekly bank clearances, $0, 119.013,000. |