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Show STOCK LIST DECLINES UPON I VIOLENT SELLING MOMENT Reaction Attains Full Force During Closing Hour, When Losses of Ten to Thirty Points Are Recorded. NEW VulvK. Nov. IS. The stool: market mar-ket was in tlie throws of another violent liquidating movement today, the reaction ; attaining: ita full force in the final hour, when extreme declines in the more vul-n.-rahle issues extended from 10 to over points. Stringent money conditions as itiuicatetl ly the maintenance of the 12 per cent rate for call loans. 71- to S per cent bill for the time fundi and the utter collapse of the foreign exchange, with the London rate at a new discount, contributed con-tributed to the further reversal. Minimum quotations made Ir. X number of favorites in today's session placed some of those issues materially under lowest prices touched In the. sweeping setback of last week and more than cancelled can-celled recent substantial .gains made by hi.ah-grade rails. louring the early and "intermediate stages dealimrs were lighter and more perfunctory than at anv period in many weeks. Ti.e market lapsed largely Into an affair between traders, public par- I ticipation being wholly negligible, CpJ- cible Steei. which more than any other I Stock bronchi about ttte slump at the end. was almost the out? issue to evince a reactionary trend during the morning. ; I when it broke 31 points, losing points ! between sales i Partial recovery of this loss was u- companled bv a brisk rally In related is- j . sues, but all this was dis&tpated when. Crucible became the center of another I selling movement. At the loV level, the i siock fell 3Ui points to ITS'-jv and closed , ) at IX. , ' I Final prices of several otr.ir stce.s. i oils, motors and equipments stoowed net, losses of I to 10 (joints. Tobaccos and I Itles were slmilaixv -pressed, and early gains in food, .enipplng and metal issues were mostly neplaeed by moderate losses. Sales amounted lot 1,130.000 shares. Bonds were irregular to Heavy: Itbertv I Issues eased1 and internationals were steady, rrotal sales (par value i rtggre-; gated' SK..80O.OOO. Old United spates bonds unchanged on call. |