The Washington Post Thursday, July 31, 1986 E3  
NEW YORK, July 30ÛÓThe stock market managed to pull itself out of an early slump today and finished mixed as blue-chip issues rallied in active trading.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average, down more than 13 points at midday, erased the loss and climbed 12.52 points to close at 1779.39.</br></br>Broad-market indicators edged higher. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 2.04 points to 236.59. The New York Stock Exchange composite index rose 0.90 to 136.09. The price of an average share rose 25 cents.</br></br>On the Big Board, 146.69 million shares changed hands, compared with 115.69 million traded Tuesday. Composite volume of stocks traded on all U.S. exchanges and over the counter was 173.94 million shares, compared with 137.33 million in the previous session.</br></br>icance," said Peter Furniss, senior vice president and a manager of equity trading at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Furniss contended that the market is not ÛÏoversold" at current levels and that it probably will go lower.