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Show DEALINGS IN BONDS SET A NEW RECORD NEW YORK, Dec. 30 Dealings in bonds on the New York stock exchange during the .vcar which closed vesterdav, totaled a par value of $1,158,209,000, and set a new record. The total in 1915 was $951,798,000. Total dealings in stocks for 1916 were 234,678,000 shares, compared with 173,-389,000 173,-389,000 in 1015.- The year's dealings in stocks have been exceeded only on three previous occasions, in 1901, 1905 and 1906. The record was set in 1906 with 2S4, 063,459 shares. There were seventy-nix days during the year in which stock exchange trading trad-ing exceeded two million shares, and. on December 21 transactions reached the high-water mark of more than three million shares. |