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Show ( FINANCIAL REVIEW. Market Able to Resist Profit Taking and Professional Pressure. XEW YORK, June '1. On two distinct orrasiony during" the unusually busy week j the stock market offered unmiKtakHble evidence of ability lo resist profit taking in professions 1 ptessure. There was heavy realizing prior to 1 1 10 holiday and I considerable nervousness from the n-:n-I porary (.losing of (he port. KoliowiiiK hotli I instances, liovc'er, the market registered ample, though not complete, recovery. Increased public participation was a factor of growing importance. Sentiment was visibly influenced by the more encouraging en-couraging "signs attending the progress of the . Uberty loan, the marvelous April statement of exports, vastly better railroad rail-road returns and more, promising crop prospects. United States Steel's contribution to the week's total on its rise to the new 1 record of 136 aggregated about 1,600,- 000 shares, or almost one-third of the outstanding common issue. Substantial improvement in sugars, tobaccos to-baccos and related products, raw and refined, re-fined, resulted from modifications by con gress of proposed war imposts. Uncertainty respecting the Russian situation was again indicated by the weakness of rubles. Kxchange on neutral European countries was invariably higher. Rails were irregular at best. |