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Show MARKING TIME ON TRADEOFCOUNTRY NEW YORK, Nov. 8. Bradstreet's tomorrow Will say; Trade continues to taper off, rumors of peace, effects of Influenza; the election holiday, nud light buying resulting from war weather having hav-ing repressed operations, and nt the same time there is a strongly defined tendeucy to mnrlc time while trying to sketch out the probnble breadth of readjustments to follow the peace now apparently in sight. In fact, the roseate OtltloOk in Kurope, with premnture reports of Germany having accepted terms submitted by the allied powers have already taken form in the un sett lenient of grain nnd coltou prices, in cancellation of some orders. In the. holding up of contemplated plant extensions, and in hiyh-er hiyh-er prices for securities. Economising nnd I lie r-bsence of young men from the lists of buyers also have made for some increase in supplies of merchandise, and in view of the inevitable defeat of (. cr ninny, irrespective of what that country may do in quibbling over terms, the general disposition is to shy away from placing orders when the potentials suggest lower prices, at least until readjustments have been worked out. Weekly bank clearings, $0,200,026,000. |