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Show THE WORLD'S MARKET NEWS New York, N Y , Doc. 31 Bidding up of special stocks gave tone to the whole list today and although progress prog-ress upward was slow, the market was Urm. Trading on the long side was encouraged by the absence of bear attacks such as have been made recently, re-cently, and by cessation of the varied selling of scattered investment hold ings. Evening up of short contracts gave an added Impulse to the buying movement With no change of importance in the situation, speculators were not Inclined to trade heavily on the eve of the holiday and business was limited. lim-ited. Holders of long stock took the small profits that woro In sight toward the close of the forenoon and prices sagged easily to about yesterday's yester-day's close. |