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Show EXPORTS OF Efiffl BREAKING RECORDS Aggregate of 8,000,000 Bushels Surpasses Any Previous Movement. CHICAGO, Jan. 4. Export business in grain today was said tonight by some authorities to have surpassed in volume any previous record since the beginning of the European war. The aggregate was estimated at about S, 000, 000 bushels, an amount due in large part to a sudden price break that widened for a brief time to 6 a bushel In the value of wheat, as compared with yesterday's finish. Announcements from Washington that President Wilson had in view a new effort to end hostilities seemed to be the chief reason for the day's sharpest descent of prices. Buyers for trans-Atlantic interests, in-terests, however, were quick to take advantage ad-vantage of the fall in the values, so much so tliat rallies consequent on export purchases pur-chases soon offset the greater portion of the losses which quotations temporarily showed. From the bottom price of the session, 180V&, May wheat, the chief speculative option, rose to 1S4 to 1S4V4 at the last and wound up relatively strong with all but 2 of the transient 6 break overcome. over-come. The S,000,000-bushel estimate of export takings included not only wheat, but 5,000,000 of oats and much corn. |