Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-24 | Page 16 | Markets Undisturbed

MARKETS UNDISTURBED. Caution Continues General and Many Interests Are Still Waiting. NEW YORK, Maxch 23. Tomorrow Dun's Review will say: Neither legitimate business nor speculative specu-lative markets have been disturbed by I the recent significant events in the foreign for-eign situation. In producing and distributing distrib-uting channels, as in banking circles, caution continues general and many interests in-terests are still waiting, but there is no lack of the confidence which is essential to the economic welfare of the nation. T)i;i t activity has abated in some branches in about alt sections is not surprising sur-prising in view of the unexampled rise of prices and the limits to which the buying buy-ing movement was previously carried, anil nearly everywhere commitments for tho far future are undertaken with prudence. pru-dence. With more open weather less is heard of delays in transportation, and the adjustment ad-justment of the railway labor contro- 1 versy has removed an unsettling and re- ! Lard ins element. Difficulty in obtaining raw materials has not been eliminated, 1 however, and manufacturing operations remain hindered, with the shortage of ; skilled hands an added drawback. Weekly Week-ly bank clearings, $ l,T57,0S3,631.