Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-30 | Page 1 | Great Record in Bond Dealings

uu Bli.D D.LAL Totals Par Value of $1,158,-209,000 $1,158,-209,000 in Year 1916 in 1916 $951,798,000. New York, Dec. 30. Dealings in bonds on the Now York stock exchange, ex-change, during the year which closed yesterday, totalled a par value of $1,-158,209,000 $1,-158,209,000 and set a now record. The total In 1915 was 951,798,000. Total dealings in stocks for 1916 were 23-1.G78.000 shares, compared with $173,389,000 in 1915. The year's dealings in stockB have been exceeded exceed-ed only on three previous occasions in 1901, 1905 and 1906. The record was set in 1906 with 284,063,459 shares. There were seventy-six days during the year in which stock exchange-trading exchange-trading exceeded two million shares and on December 21 transactions reached the high water mark of moro than three million shares.