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Show PRICES AND TRADE VOLUrlE DECLINE TO LOW LEVELS Quotation Changes Mixed, but Entire List Breaks Sharply Toward the Last of the Session. N K W YORK. Dec. IT-. Opera ttnrv In the t fie k market today consi.it en My followed the lines of least re-iitauec, av.'nit'e prices and the vu ! nine nf trading deu lining almost tu lowest levels of the week. A lino? t 30 per e in of the nominal turnover turn-over duriui; the early vml ititcrtnediaie states of (he session wan represented by half u dozen issues, all of the more specula live variot y. t'nited Stales Steel, Stuilebalier, Mariii" pr. ferred and .Mexican petroleum featured the movement and iudiculed the market 'a superficial super-ficial character. Price changes nnlil Ihe final hour were rather mixed, with u pretonderatice of losses, liut. Ihe entire lit broUi- sliarply toward Mie end, coppers reflect in jt especial weak in -fi on reports of n rut ill Mn; metal to 1! eenls. The setback unions popular copper shares exteinleil from to a.j jH.iint:', I t. ih siiowinc ljreate.it impairment. From Mint croup Ihe reaction Kprenl to other industrials and prominent promi-nent equipments, United S la I us Steel show ins u loss of 1 t.j (nints. Investment rails, which were inclined to Improve Im-prove after a listlpss forenoon, reversed their eours" with bliippings. oils, motors and fertilizers, Uioiife'h rallyins slightly at the close. Utilities, notably local tractions, In which weiiknesn spreud to bonds, were nnder constant con-stant pressure, probably as a result of recent 1111 favorable statements of enrnings. Total sales 11 mounted to 4 IS. 000 uhares. Call muney was off tired iim low as 4'd per cent, but ti per cent was the ruling rate with a minimum of time funds. Honda were irregular, foreign Ismies easing f lightly and Liberty bondn steadying after early declines. Total sales (par valne) aggregated SP.ino.nnO. Old United States bonds were un-changed un-changed en call. |