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Show COPPER AMD SUGAR HEAVY IN DAT OMDULL TRADING Irregular Rallies Mark Final Dealings With Total Sales Amounting to 240,000 Shares. NEW YORK, Jan. TT. Traders availed themselves of the revival of peace reports in the course of today's dull and perfunctory mar- ket, leading issues as well as 1 volatile specialties recording: irregular declines. de-clines. The movement was assisted by conditions in the commodity markets, cereals yielding: sharply, with'a contrary rise in cotton options. United Stales Steel was offered down a point with o points for Bethlehem Steel and 1 to 2 points for affiliated industrials, in-dustrials, 2 to 3 points for shippings and motors, and more moderate recessions In equipments. Coppers were heavy with Industrial Alcohol, Al-cohol, Distillers' Securities, Central leather, American Can, Texas company, Beet Sugar, International Paper and kindred speculative issues. . Gains were limited to fewer than half a dozen stocks. Chief among these were i General Electric, I'nitod States Rubber and Minneapolis & St. Paul Railroad, the j latter advancing more than 3 points. Halls as a whole fell into complete obscurity, ob-scurity, some of the more representative representa-tive issues remaining unquoted. Irregular Irreg-ular rallies marked the final dealings, total sales amounting to 240.000 shares. . General financial news of th day included in-cluded the announcement tlat subscrip- ! tions to the new British loan equalled thft full amount of that issue, thereby lnsui-t ing its sunesa. German exchange wag slightly reactionary, with no material alteration al-teration in other remittances. The bank statement failed to meet : general expectations of a large loss of cash, (lie actual contraction being only nominal, with a large increase, however. In loans and a decrease of about $11,000,-h0 $11,000,-h0 in reserves, the first setback in flv weeks. ' The only feature of the irregular bond market was the heavy selling of St. Louis & San Francisco Issues at concessions con-cessions extending from i to 1 Vi points. Foreign bonds were dull and without I change. Total sales, par value, $2,790,000. United Slates bonds were unchanged on I call during the week. |