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Show WILL STREET YEAR MOST REMARKABLE i . . Specialties Figure Importantly Import-antly in Operations of Last Week of 1915. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Tha Tear, in some respects the most remarkable in the history of Wall street, closed witn breadth and buoyancy. Specialties figured fig-ured importantly in the week's operations, opera-tions, particularly tbe oil division, which rose to new records on rumors of deals and consolidations. Sentiment was materially accelerated by the prospective settlement vpf ' outstanding out-standing differences ' between tc government gov-ernment and Austria. Ihaf development' more than any other contributing ta tbe active market of the fiual session. Another An-other important feature was the farther brilliant exhibits of railway earnings tor November, many of. these assuming .unprecedented .un-precedented proportions. Metal sbn rs were in. further request on the eonljqued rie in the metal to 1?- ceuts, that quotation . representing future delieri C5, a tbe market bas been s we jit bare of supplies Iir immediate imme-diate consumption. Activity in the steel and iron industry continues at a maximum of canaHty and higher premiums pre-miums are being offerpd for ( a rlv de- In erics of many finished :ha'eria;.. ; There was some foreign liquidation of 'our stnrks and brmd? br Knropc, e-pe-. cia v London, t '"at market ma ni fr-t in ; I'urt hrr uneasiness over the rIa n to mobilise American securities. Kxidmn'e 'on London was at its highest rates in i months, partly as a result of heavy offering of-fering from 'abroad. In the investment market almost the sole disturbing feature Tras the dealine in Anglo-French war bonds to tbe new low quotation of 93, at which, level sales attained large proportions. This hardened slightly later in sympa.-thy sympa.-thy frith the better tone of tlie general market. Interest and dividend disbursements disburse-ments aggregating .$300,000,000 win be made early in the year and the release of this large sum "is expected to find speedy reflection in a quickened demand for securities of the better class. |