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Show CLOSING QUOTATIONS QF WORLD'S MARKETS MOVEMENT IN STOCK MARKET SLUGGISH New York, Feb. 4. Thcro wns quite a number of stocks showing gains at the opening today, but the most im-po.rtant im-po.rtant issues were lower. The movement move-ment was sluggish and Indifferent, A loss of a point In Anaconda was the only important change. An inquiry for the Gould stocks had a stimulating effect on the market, but tho advances were subsequently lost when an outbreak of liquidation in Consolidated Gas started selling uf Reading and Union Pacific. Conaoll- I dated Gas dropped 3 1-4 to 114 1-2. I Reading, Union PaclHc, American Smelting and Louisville & Nashville, gained 1; American Woollen and moat active stocks sagged below yesterday's closing prices. Among the gains wero Missouri Pacific and International Paper Pa-per preferred 1 1-2 and Minneapolis & St. Louis and New Haven 1 1-4 and Denver & Rio Grande, Texas & Pacific, New York. Chicago & St. Louis and American Sugar. A steady tone developed, de-veloped, Consolidated Gas making up about half of its loss and the general list a good fraction. Some of the mln- j of stocks were unusually active. Bonds were Irregular. |