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Show BIG BANKING INTERESTS BACK THE STOCK MARKET Many Material Recoveries From Frenzied Liqui-: dation; Less Business Is ; Transacted. ' NE" YORK, Xov. 9. Substantial support, sup-port, presumably from tanUins snuroe?. was accorded today's stock market, with many, material recoveries from ycstcrOny's frenzied liquidation. De-alinss were relatively rela-tively light, falling almost half a million shares under the large total of tlie prevU 1 ous session, out the trend after the first hour wae. mainly upward. Liquidation seemed to have exhausted itself and the hears covered more extensively exten-sively than at any time In the past fortnight. fort-night. Technical conditions seemeJ to favor fa-vor the -rebound, albeit additional foreign advices were not wholly reassuring. Today's movement embraced almost a,"? I many stocks as that which featured yesterday's yes-terday's decline. There was a Rood inquiry in-quiry for rails, over a score of transportation trans-portation issues mailing" gross gains of 2 to 4 points. Steels, coppers and equipments also figured prominently at similar advances and shippings asserted all their usual in- 1 dependence. manifesting pronounced strength at fill times. .Marines and .steels were the sustaining features of the strong close, with Union Pacific and Reading. i Specialties related to the war group averaged 1 to 4-point gains, but these : w ere susceptible to profit-taking, al- , H ough Bethlehem Steel closed at a net advance of 2"- and United States Steel ; ended 15S up at P1T. Sales amounted i to S l.V 000 shares. Greater weakness ; mai'ked the exchange rates on Pelrograd j and Rome, both falling to recoi-d discounts, dis-counts, j International Issues again constituted : the depressing- features of the bond list. although domestic rails and industrials also lost ground. Liberty ie ruled at par, J hut the 38 made a new low on the de- ; cline from" JW.SS; to Si'i!i.26. Total sales. I par value, were 5:J-.:tsO.('O0. s United States bonds, old issues, were I unchanged on call. |