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Show STANDARD ISSUES GAIN -ON THE FINAL DEALINGS Turnover of the Day Is Negligible and Is Limited to Equipments, Motors and Tobaccos; Moderate Inquiry for Copper. NEW YORK, March :10. Aside from the strength of a low specialties, today's stock market manifested no definite trend until the final dealings, when standard issues, such as Union Pacific and liead-iny, liead-iny, registered substantial gains, partly as a result of short cover Ins". Much ot" the day's negligible turnover was limited to equipments, motors and tobaccos, at extreme advances of 1 to 2 points. Coppers also responded to a moderate mod-erate inquiry and some of the more obscure ob-scure specialties, including" Wilson Packing, Pack-ing, were higher by 1 to 3S4 points. " United States Steel was apathetic within a- fractional area, finishing at a trivial gain. Allied steels were variable., as were most of the distinctive war issues. is-sues. Total sales amounted to 110,000 shares. All the day's general news was subordinated to a closer scrutiny of the advices on the progress of the battle In France. The bank statement reflected the week's smaller market operations, the tablo of actual conditions showing a decrease de-crease of less than $1 2.000,000 in loans and an increase of about 6,500,000 in excess ex-cess reserves. Bond dealings were In keeping: with the superficial character of the stock market. mar-ket. Liberty issues were slightly lower, and rails, including convertibles, reacted moderately. Total sales, par value, aggregated ag-gregated S-i.650,000. United States bonds fold issues') were unchanged on call during the week. XEW YORK. March T.O. At no time since this country's entrance into the international in-ternational conflict has interest in financial finan-cial quarters become so acute as during the last week. The only spasm of activity was that furnished by the extraordinary buying of Liberty bonds at substantial advances, not all of which were held. The coming wek, it is generally believed, will be devoted de-voted largely to preparations for the third loan. Domestic developments bearing upon the securities market were mainly con- siruclive. The favorable annual report of the United States Steel corporation, the new and satisfactory schedules issued by t lie war board and the evident dis-poit dis-poit ion of the government to ease the flnaii'dal burdens of tho railroads were helpful in varying" degree. Kailroad earnings again were of mixed character, but indications point, to a reported re-ported readjustment of the conditions created by the embargo of the first months of the year. General business, accord ins to trade authorities, shows remarkable stability. NBW YORK, March SO. War news I completely obsoirred other events in the ! four full days of the. week on the stoek exchn nse. Kvery move in the terrific struggle on the western battle front was watched with ahsorbing interest, but unshaken un-shaken confidence in the outcome stabilized stabi-lized standard shares. Active trading centered largely in the unprecedented demand for Liberty bonds, particularly 2nd As, which followed announcement an-nouncement of the terms of the next issue. Various theories were assigned for the movement, but in the last analysis it was evident that the buying had its origin in substantial quarters.' The remarkable showing of the United States Steel corporation for 1917, the intention in-tention of the government to render necessary aid to railroads in financial straits, as indicated by the loon to the New Haven road, and the new schedule for steel and iron were among the distinctly dis-tinctly favorable factors of the week. Certain of the more speculative stocks, such as shippings, motors and war supply sup-ply issues of an unclassified character, were depressed at intervals for reasons especially applicable to those shares. These included reduced earnings, "dwindling "dwin-dling dividend prospects and difficulties due to scarcity of skilled labor. Bank clearings at reading centers reflected re-flected Increased activity in many lines of Industry, but the investment market was at a standstill, financial interests conserving con-serving their resources for the next Liberty Lib-erty drive. |