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Show W MARKETS But Stock Prices Are Kept Up on Wall Street New York, March 11. The week In the stock murket was the dullest of the year, with few prlco changes of note. Tho market held up well In the face of unfavorable Influences and the good tono which was shown during most of the week seemed to .Indicate that stocks are in strong hands. Mexican affairs were brought to the fore during the week by reason of our government's activities, but aside from some weakness in Mexican railway shares, tho Wall street market was not Influenced by these developments.. Reduction of the New York Central's Cen-tral's dividend rate, while not a surprise sur-prise on account of the decreased earnings of the road, was another of the week's unfavorable happenings and helped to restrain bullish operators. opera-tors. The United States Steel corporation's corpor-ation's monthly report of unfilled tonnage ton-nage was in line with the expectations of a gradual Increase in operations, although al-though the increase was not sufficiently sufficient-ly marked to lend Impetus to specula-tlon. |