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Show 70 BUSINESS Export Tralle Breaks Record-Meial Trades Are Improving T New York, June 17. (Weekly market mar-ket summary ) Alternate periods of strength and weakness, none of which was sufficiently pronounced to lend decided Impetus to trading or lead to ' material changes in prices levels, mnrked the week, on the stock exchange. ex-change. The marketj fell Into a waiting wait-ing attitude, pending tho receipt of more definite information In regard to trade conditions and crop prospects. pros-pects. Liquidation of stock which had been accumulated during the recent rise tended to prevent a further substantial sub-stantial advance. Reports of damagd to crops by drought'causcd uneasiness, although this was relieved J somewhat toward the end of the week by rains in several sev-eral sections. Suspension of dividends on Denver & Rio Grande preferred depressed the stock but was without eficct elsewhere, since It was regarded regard-ed as in line with tho present conser-'vatlve conser-'vatlve policy of the Gould system and Its new banking associates. 1 Indications of better conditions In -"both the steel and copper trades exerted ex-erted a favornble Influence upon snec- ulatlve sentiment, as did the May I statistics of foreign trado, revealing ; the largest exports for that month on ! record, and a balance of trado In favor fav-or of this country for eleven months I of more than $500,000,000. |