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Show MONEY THE CONTROLLING FACTOR IN STOCK MARKET Bankers Against Extravagant Speculation; Trade Is Dull in Wall Street. NEW YORK. Sept. 27. The same considerations con-siderations which recently tended to restrict re-strict stock market opera t ions for the long account were again in fore today. Money was the controlling factor around which most other conditions revolved, call loans holding at yesterday's high rate of t per rent until the final hour, when a fractional drop was reported. There was also a further paucity of time funds. j In the financial district there is a fast- ' growing impression that conservative banking interests have registered their earnest opposition to extravagant speculation, specu-lation, pending the outcome of the next Liberty loan. The money market is expected ex-pected to reflect this attitude. Trading was dull except at irregular intervals when the professional element sought to effect further impairment, of quoted values. In this they were more or less successful until the final hour, when short covering, notably in steels and affiliated industrials, resulted in an irregular rally and a firm close. United States Steel fluctuated between lOtl-i and 111. its final quotation "( 110'-4 showing a net gain of the smallest fraction. frac-tion. Bethlehem and Crucible Steels, together to-gether with other eottipments. finished mostly at irregular advances. Rails were adversely influenced by the weakness of St. Paul common and preferred, pre-ferred, the former breaking 2. to 57. within a fraction of its minimum, and the preferred falling l-1.. to 99-,4. its low record for many years. The common stock later made slight recovery. Shippings were again inclined to move upward, but were held in check by the heavy trend in other quarters. Some of the pooled specialties registered nominal gains. Total sales amounted to 435,000 shares. l.iberly 3cis featured the irregular bond 'market, transactions in that issue, from par to the new high record of 100.14. far exceeding all olher dealings. Total sales of bonds, par value, aggregated 84,515.-(Wfl. 84,515.-(Wfl. United States bonds (old issues') were unchanged on call. |