The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31
|IINfS EXPECTED.
~. People Look for Better
Prices.
~ DURING THE PAST YEAR
4 Table Of stocks
~, the widest Fiuct"-
.....pay's Trading

" D.s.mesr so.-Th '.., Transactions aosa .,
's exchange today were more ~, ~
~ ~ the holiday frolics oil the
CIV, ~ door, but there was sufficient
X, evening to even up account. :
the year to make quite an
~ and some irreEularity in prices.
,r. and ohio stocks after tne'r
!, Yesterday, were conspicuousiy
y = common falling back nearly 2'a
:,,,red point. The most active
',s,,,,s. including Sugar. the To-
4. New York City stocks, were
3 react, although the undertone
id there was a disposition TO nola
.Ypected demand after the hrst
The expectation of this demand
~. anddan relapse in the money
n, ibs lcsding financial cen,ers, a rne
sunt rate islImg below the Uann
~ Befpi rate showing tu,en NJ
n. riyes sroald for a hope that the
.msnt dl'goW viii be brought 10 a
scssible. ITO fever, taat the reiaxa-
~ money ktea may be based on
n,Ither Supplies of gold from
-, y That pcing the case bankers
4, here may be recurrence oil money
7. trading demonstrated that the
scss -stiii offers inducements Tor
Z Mnyiug. The sales of small lots
"a. IA snnres continued even more
a. ihan on recent days. All grades
~srs embraced in this demand down
.,r.diyidend pages. The prevailing
.'.'nn the exchange was decidedly
y ~ constant striving of the financial
snileipate events is responsible FOR
IAN Of lively recovery IN prices OF
y s,a easy money conditions in The
Z, # the YEAR. 1nis tendency OF Inc
!, ,crld is responsible for the week
{na two-fold sense, Last week
I,ssdtlors we're the result of prepara-
b. money pinch which has long been
I'm a, the close OF the year, owing 70;
Ir,ordnary magnitude of the January
rremepts this year. Last week
{I.uldatlon oyer,lld itself az such vio-
l,,,msnts are certain to do, and Wall
fsund Itself Unexpectedly flush win
Inn prices Of securities at the lowest
h be year and ptacticaIly universal
I'm that the beginning Of the new year
m period Of easier money with the
rsex OF funds from active use in
4 IA the worlds financial centers. The
Eve world therefore, executed an ab-
&ut face and rushed 10 buy stocks 10
IN the good times supposed to be
nth the new year The demand was
|uly urgent from the short interest
ma over extended Itself last week aud
1 some violent recoveries In stocks
ND suffered most severely from last
panic. For instance, Metropolitan
Railway. which closed Saturday. De
lis at l6l,. sold in the panic at 1tI and
ksx.ek TO 1914, which. allowing for
rdend deducted, is equal to over $50.
/ the general level of prices has re-
70 about that of Saturday before
rlc From the speculative standpoint
hare arisen whether the evidence Of
loytfy was not excessive and there
q realizing by holders who bought In
,Is either, 10 sustain prices or in
i sargalns and renewed short selling at
tvered high level
allowing table will give, an idea OF the
u the movement in ffe stock market
~ pastfyear and will account for
nations 81 the last two weeks in the
70 find the equilibrium Of the true
. Those stocks have been selected in
~ fluctuations have been widest, but
Y speaking, they are also those In
e transactions have been largest, so
" are fairly Representatives of the
o. the column headed About .Ianu-
prices marked with an asterisk are
I Of listing prices of stocks toated
he year