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Show RESTRICTED TRADING MARKS AIMLESS SECURITY SESSION Activity of Market Is Almost Exclusively Professional; Profes-sional; Call Money Falls to Lowest . Quotations of Week. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. The aimless drift of today's doll and uninteresting stock market aes-ioii aes-ioii wag the combine! outcome, to a larjre decree, de-cree, of tomon-ow's holiday and the further rnarkod absence of public in teres t. At no period since I lie reaction of the past fortnight has the character of the trading been so obviously professional or more read ric led as tr volume and variety of Issues dalt in. News of the day was conflicting in Ub faTor-able faTor-able am) adverse a peers, cull wooey falling to lowest quotntlons of the week on the Increased supply, while the foreign exohanre market was in the throes of fresh demora Illation. These developments seemed to exert little or no effect, however, the ebb and flow of prices .deriving- their sole impulse from further short selling, balanced at Intervals by the bullish activity of puolu In some of the closely held specialties. Local tractions were almost the ony that reflated eiistlug or impending conditions, weakening on small offr1na lnduc-d by the more acute stage In the labor situation. An Irregular opening was soon bucceded by heaviness, this in turn giving way to moderate flnnnens at midday. On rather Vre selllog In the final hour many moderate galna were can- I celled, United Btats Steel being among the few notable exceptions at Q gain of 1 point. Suls amounted to 735. 0"0 shares. I On today', further declines French exchange : was at a discount of about 5 per cent, while Italian rates showed a depreciation of almost 4f pr cent, dealers predicting still lower quo- , tattoos. 1 Buuds in general were heavy, Uie Liberty i group alone holding steady. Total sales, par value, were Jll.rVHi.OOO. Old U. S. bonds were unchanged on call. |