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Show mm HETS J NEW YORK, Dec. 29. The opening of. today's stock market was posipon-j ed for half an hour because of a breakdown break-down in the local subway system First prices were higher In the main, last, week's movement in industrials being! resumed- Steels, leathers, coppers) ;and low-grade rails were the strongest i teaiun s with American Woolen, which ilr-d lost Saturday's spirited advance of Special Issues. Rails were irregular and shippings cased with several ac-j live equipments. The market became very irregular ! within the first half hour, many rains; b Ing cancelled on the heaviness of n il' and shippings Selling of rails was probably prompted by the publication publi-cation of numerous statements of November No-vember earnings, some of which dls-Iri.pfl dls-Iri.pfl largo losses in net and oporat ing expenses, Oils and tobaccos also gave Way to pressure and steels and equipments reacted 1 to 2 point. General Motors forfeited its early ad-ivance ad-ivance but other shares of that class were steady. Further unsettlement i i reat't before noon by the tighter money tendencies, cr.ll loans opening at twelve per cent. Call loans advanced to 18 per cent ' at midday and S to SVj per cent was bid lor time money for the shorter dates, This precipitated wider Belling f leading stocks excepting coppers, I which rose 1 to 2 points on the In-: In-: creased demand for the metal. |