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Show METALS KEEP POISE H WEEDING Leading Important Stocks Fluctuate From Two to Three Points, NEW YORK, Jan. 57. ChangM in quoted values of Important stocks during dur-ing a week dull and circumscribed operations op-erations were mostly nominal. Leaders fluctuated 2 to 3 points and special Issues Is-sues were equally irregular, with a lower range toward the end .lor shippings, motors mo-tors and rubbers. ' Rails lasrged throughout, total de-allngs In that division being th llghest for any similar period In many months. itn the approach of th quarterly meeting of the United Stats Steel corporation interest inter-est in that stock centered on what action ac-tion the directors would take on the common com-mon stock. - Other industrials and metals as a gTOtip were steadv to firm on the better tone of the markets for those products. Equipments Equip-ments and erstwhile "war brides" also changed hands at higher levels. Subsidence Subsi-dence in large part of peace reports gave rise-, to reports of the early placing of new foreign contracts. The' new British loan, to which subscriptions sub-scriptions are eaid to he gratlfyingly large; an lssuo of 525.000,000 of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway bonds, the bewildering movements of foreign exchange, ex-change, and the congressional inquiry into the so-called leak which is supposed to have caused the crumbling of prices last December, served to relieve the monotony of the week. |