Late Profit-Taking Trims Market Gains: Volume Increases
NEW YORK, April 19ÛÓThe stock market managed to squeeze through to its fifth straight advance today, but without the fireworks of the four rallies.</br></br>Autos were in tne vanguard early in the day, but some of them fell back later. Glamor stocks, for the most part, were lower.</br></br>The Dow .Tones industrial average, ahead just over two points at its best reading, hung on the close at 873.94, up 0.94 point. Standard & PoorÛªs 500-stock composite was ahead 0.08 point to 91.94 and</br></br>By the broadest measure, the market was practically a standoff, with (136 stocks up and 612 down, compared with 812 winners and 420 losers on Tuesday.</br></br>Volume Increases Volume ran well ahead of TuesdayÛªs pace early in the sessionÛÓthe ExchangeÛªs tape was two minutes late in the morningÛÓbut the ardor cooled later on and, at the finish, 10.87 million shares had cross the tape, up from 10.5 million the day before.