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Show SPECIALTY TRADING OCCURS ALONE IN STAGNANT MARKET Some Irregular Advances Are Noted; Rails Negligible Neg-ligible Factor and Shipping Favors Loijg Account. NEW YORK, Pec 6. Tradinff in line stock market today, the dullest Fe?sion of several weeks, was acain limited to specialties, notably tobarojs, at extreme advances of 1 to 6 points. The movement in that quarter was traceable to professional interests and derived its impetus from a revival of rumors susireatlnp a combination or merger of tho bet ter-known manufacturers manufac-turers and producers. Irregular advances were resisicred by other specialties, euch as Beet Supar. American Linseed common and preferred, Studebaker and American Woolen, the latter scoring a material train prior to publication of the declaration of the "extra" "ex-tra" dividend. Ralls were a negligible quantity throughout, apart from the strength of Canadian Pacific and several of the low-priced low-priced western and southern issues. Steels, coppers and oils fluctuated within , irrppular limits. i Shippings fii-orcd ' the Ions account, al-i al-i tlioupii .Marines reacted toward the close i in ronneL'tion ilth rumors of unforeseen ! obstacles to the proposed sale of the coni-j coni-j pfiny's Firitlsh tonnage to the United ; States government. Sales amounted to j 2So,000 shares. j Aside from the retention of renular divl-i divl-i domls by the metal producers and a slight I ea ing of iall money, there was little in the day's news to stimulate public or outside out-side interest. Tlie investment market was further unsettled by a continuance of the heavy seillnR of Liberty bonds, the tax-exempt falling to 97. ,10. a decline of o per cent from the ar's best, while the fourth 4Vs established yet another minimum mini-mum at oj.T'O. Total sales, par value, agcrepatcd ? 1,700. 000. Old United States bonds were unchanged on call. |