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Show POOLS are conspicuous IN MINOR. SPECIALTIES Stock Market hesitant and Irregular Early; Prices Harden Late in the Day. NEW YORK, July 26. The stock market mar-ket was hesitant and irregular in the first half of today's superficial session, presumably on the failure of sensational war rumors current yesterday to materialize, mate-rialize, but prices hardened later, a fey leaders making maximum quotations for the current movement. Pools were conspicuous in numerous minor specialties, but steels, allied equipments, equip-ments, coppers, and some of the tobaccos, tobac-cos, featured the occasional intervals of activity, mainly on short covering. United States Steel was easily In the forefront, furnishing about 40 per cent of the offerings and attaining the highest price of the week at 10S, closing half a point under its best. Bethlehem, Crucible Steel and Lacka wanna Steels, Republican Iron and Colo ratio Fuel gained 1 to 2 points. L t. coppers and oils 1 to lhi, and oene .11 Cigars was prominent for its sudden rise of four points. ,- . Rails were extremely listless Lirnon Pacific, for instance, remaining altogetner unquoted until at the end, while Heading slowly regained its one-point reversal. Other backward issues included General Motors, Sumatra Tobacco, Industrial Alcohol Al-cohol and Cuba Cane Sugar, bales amounted to 3:;5,000 shares. Internationals fared better than domestic domes-tic issues in the irregular bond market, Paris 6s gaining c and Anglo-French 5s a small fraction. Total sales, par value, aggregated $4. 925, 000. Old United States bonds, unchanged on call. |