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Show MORE SPECULATION ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK, June 24. Speculation has broadened out on the stock exchange this week under aggressive and organized leadership and prices have advanced substantially sub-stantially through considerable pressure of realizing and In the face of some unfavorable un-favorable , news developments. The movement was encouraged by the repeated re-peated demonstrations of the market's resisting power to attack. Indicating a "sold-out" condition. Extreme ease of money rates and the hope of a July Investment In-vestment demand fostered the movement. An increase in the Readings dividend aroused hopes of other Increases. Sentiment Senti-ment in the iron trade was cheerful. The Equitable Life affair seemed to lose Its depressing force and . occasional crop scares were Ignored. |