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Show "professionals do MOST OF STOCK "MARKET- TRADING Session of Exchange Dull and Irregular as Regards Re-gards Movements and Prices. NEW YORK, March -J!). Except for sporadic movements In special stocks, mainly at hisher levels, today's market was a counterpart counter-part of the dull anrl irregular irregu-lar session of the previous day. Trading Trad-ing was attain restricted almost wholly to the professional element, which bought and sold according to its caprices or the exigencies of the hour. Banking interests were somewhat apprehensive ap-prehensive during the morning on the sudden suspension of the. market for e:;-1 e:;-1 lianee on the Teutonic centers, but that condition was overcome later when rates on Hcrlln and Vienna stiffened substan-tiallv. substan-tiallv. Declaration of martial law in Spain gave rise to further misgivings regarding re-garding the general European situation. Over 6" per cent of the total turnover turn-over of 570.000 shares took place in the forenoon, the last three hours recording an almost steady diminution of operations opera-tions to tiie accompaniment of lower ciuotatlons. in which rails yielded with 1 he general list. Newly Listed Stocks Active. Next to United Stales Steel, which ranged between 1157 and 114 ,4, closing at 13 -a net loss of of a point, the most active stocks of the day included in-cluded two newlv listed issues Sinclair Oil and Midvale Steel. Sinclair made an extreme gain of 4 points to 59, but I Midvales maximum of 61s was a gam of only 'i a point over its final quota- . tion on the "curb." Wilson Packing made the new record of 83 on another rise of 6 points and Ohio Gas also sought a higher level on its advance to 1322, with the subscription subscrip-tion "rights" at 4-, but both failed to hold at top levels. Other specialties and utilities shaded on small offerings, and metals, shippings and minor rails were lower by 1 to 2 points. Abrupt Decline. Motor and leather issues were early features of marked strength, but declined abruptly In the last half hour with sugars and some of the secondary equipment equip-ment and supply . issues, Including petroleums. General news embraced an analysis of Februarv imports and exports, the latter lat-ter item aggregating $467,683,406. an Increase In-crease of almost $66,000,000 over the same month of 1916. The only noteworthy railway statement for February was that of the lehigh Vallev railroad, showing a net decrease of Jfi'44.311. Bonds were irregular, with a decline of 2'i points In Pennsylvania railroad 4V4s. "Bond sales (par value). $2,860,000. 1'." S. bonds were unchanged on call. |