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Show UNITED STATES STEEL ISSUES ' DOMINATE TRADING ON MARKET Rails and Metals Join in Response to the General Buoyancy; Industrials Are Given Decided Impetus. EW TOBK, March 21. One popular issue, United States Steel, dominated today'B stock market, removal of the long existing uncertainty uncer-tainty over prices giving a fremendous impetus to the entire list of industrials. Other speculative favorites joined the advance. ad-vance. Kails and metals lagged until the final hour, when they responded to the general buoyancy. The demand for United States Steel was on a scale unequalled sloce its lust boom, one coram ission house alone having buying orders for 100,000 shares. At an extreme adyance of 4V. points to 998, steel contributed about 40 ner cent of the day's total. There was a wide- spread feeling that the outcome of The Washington Wash-ington conference would go far to restore confidence con-fidence as the new price schedule bears pertinently per-tinently on many lines of industry. In the excitement ex-citement caused by heavy trading in Bteels, only local attention was paid to the further vagaries of foreign exchange,, the domestic money market and the New York railway companies, com-panies, and transactions again weakened. In the main, final prices approached the day's maximum quotations. Sales, 1,250,000 shares. Foreign bonds were fractionally lower and Liberty 4H- made a new mininum o $93.06. Total sales (par valuo) $12,150,000. Old United States bonds unchanged on call. |