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Show NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE OPENS New York, Nov. 28. The New York Stock Exchange resumed operations In a tentative way today for the first ume since July .10 last when the foreign for-eign situation, already tense, caused the cessation of business in all the leading financial markets of the world. Trading was restricted to bonds, for which in all Instances minimum min-imum prices were established All transactions were for cash and every effort was made to exclude for eign selling. The attendance on the floor of the exchange when the gong sounded at 10 o'clock was unusually large "There was little business at the cutset of the session The first transaction trans-action recorded was the sale of five bonds of the U. S. Steel corporation at 99 3-4Ci a decline of 1 1-4 from the closing price of July 30. The next transaction was the sale of five bonds of Distillers' Securities Wn at 56, an advance of 3 1-2 Then followed the sale of a single Chesapeake Chesa-peake and Ohio bond at a decline of 1 1-2, with later offerings of small amounts of such issues as Southern l'aclflc convertibles. Ray Consolidat eri C's, St. Paul General Mortgage 4 1-2's and Northern Pacific 4 b. These showed declines ranging from a substantial sub-stantial fraction in Southern Pacific to 3 7-8 points in Ray Consolidated. Declines were recorded in the final hour. The heavy losses sustain(d by-such by-such Issues as Seaboard, Southern Railway and abash indicated that the authorities of the exchange had virtually removed all price restrictions restric-tions in the more obscure bonds The total business for the session amounted to $644,000 par value with FSOOO in government bonds 1 |