Show I I STEADY IMPROVEMENT DENOTED IN STOCK TRANSACTIONS NEW YORK March C. C The G.-The The movement movement move move- ment of stocks for the tho greater part of the week denoted uncertainty arising from the international l situation but prices s hardened later all parts of ot the 11 list lint it Knowing appreciable gains Peace rumors played n at part In the general advance ance but hut influential banking interests interests inter Inter- ests professed I ignorance of or au any negotiations having for their object an earl early termination of or tho the war Domestic offered encouragement ng the tho situation In the steel trade find and other leading Industries pointing toward steady tend Improvement This Thin was borne out b by bank clearings I. I alth although uch New York shows howa lees leas 1 power than other Important centers earnings Indicate varying tonnage tonnage tonnage ton ton- nage movements mo but most 11 of or the transportation trans trans- compan companies lea now have e operating well ul under r control Increasing ease cato e of money mone IM Is reflected Ir ip lower rates for long time loans and commercial paper Financing of or new Issues goes aeH forward with greater ac ac- ac- ac tivit In bonds at higher prices particularly parti the more mol recent notations Investment In- In vestment estment Inquiry manifests ts extreme i how however r but a moderate de demand demand IC- IC mand IM is reported from Crom b banks and other institutions whose surpluses increased luring during the dull period of the preceding months month Further sharp declines In the market markot for grains ar are believed belle to measure the possible outcome of latest developments in eastern Europe but cotton and other othor commodities are being exported on an Increasing scale at higher prices Foreign For For- sign eign exchange markets were re Ie less leas Sf unsettled un un- settled this week but continued to faor faor fa- fa or or this center |