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Show oo WEEKLY SUMMARY OF STOCK MARKET New York. July 12 The level of stock market quotations was changed but little as a result of the week's operations. Trading was exceptionally dull, and movements were restricted to unimportant swings up and down, representing chiefly the activities of board room traders. The week's news was for the most part favorable to the bears. Gold exports ex-ports were resumed, with shipments of $5,000,000 to Paris. The Pittsburg bank failure, the new war in the Balkans, Bal-kans, which caused some unsettle-ment unsettle-ment in foreign markets, the possibility possi-bility of a strike of trainmen and conductors con-ductors on the eastern railroads and the poor showing of spring wheat In the government crop report tended to restrict speculation on the long side of the market. A further falling off in the steel trade was indicated by a decrease of 517,000 tons In the United States Steel corporation's unfilled orders on hand July 1. Although the Copper Producers reported a shrinkage in stocks of metals, the decrease was due to small production rather than to increased in-creased demand. on |