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Show DlGPLUCTUflTlONS ON VflLL STREET NEW YORK, March Fluctuations were very wild and Irregular In the opening open-ing decline In stocks today. The ' advances ad-vances and declines were very much confused con-fused and showed no consistency either) with the earlier movement In London or In the Individual members: of the same groups. The copper stocks continued demoralised. de-moralised. Amalgamated Copper broke an extreme five on running; sales. American Smelting and Anaconda fell 4. Examples of the Irregularity of the market were shown In an advance of a point In Union Pacific, while Southern Pacific fell 2. and Pennsylvania It. - . Bear operators were squeesed In the ! upward rush of prices that set In Immediately Imme-diately after the market opened. Wide variations occurred between sales, Union Pacific jumping 2 points on one transac- tion. The entire market sold materially above the closing figure of yesterday. Smelting showed an over-night advance of 2, and Southern Pacific 2t. Other advances ad-vances were great. Northern preferred 4, Northern Paeiflo , Union Pacific 1. St. Paul and Canadian Pacific 4, Beading 41, Missouri Pacific SI, General Electric 3. Atchison and Baltimore & Ohio 2). |