Dow Advances 17.96 On Light Trading
'alt, they noted that the Washington Post staff writer nsrjwas helped by very ertcour-NEW YORK, Nov. 26ÛÓg economic news. The Com-the sellers of recent weeks 81åÇce Department reported parently taking a four-ifijt the index of leading eco-weekend ÛÓ and helped itoynic indicatorsÛÓthose that some long-awaiting encou: faå¨id to move before the gening news ÛÓ the stock maikeil economyÛÓscored an ad-scored one of Its better giJtesice of 1.2 per cent in Octo-of the year today. Trading foas Normally, the index moves light.	in Tactions of one per cent.</br></br>The Dow Jones indust [4dP*^ys^s said that, like the average moved generally h giftsÛªs advance, that index er throughout the session	require	some confirma- finished with a gain of 1 å£98} before the traders take it points at 816.59. It was fllgiously. biggest one-day advance fo&s the statistics indicated, the bellwether indicator si Abe advance ran through most the 32.93-point burst on A Ugiustry groups. Of the 30 16, the day after PresidStacks in the Dow industrials, Nixon initiated the new cSS-were up, only one was down nomic policies.	and two were unchanged. The</br></br>Analysts were heartened Jfif. V>ser Westinghouse the advance, which attrai i^actxic, off 1.8 to 84. The com-virtually no opposition, SWPy P^ns to sell 4 million they noted that it came o Shares of stock next week, day sandwiched between ^mong the 15 most actively holiday and a weekend,	stocks,	13 were higher,</br></br>mally a session without m Ifflf was down and one was un longer-range significai<?fe?nged. Block trades ac They noted that the mat kQbnted for most of issues on has gone up the day a Dae list. Even in the block mar-Thanksgiving in all of the phet, action was slower despite five years and eight of the Ltist rally. The NYSE reported ten.	_______________________ On the other side, some said, if the advance continues next | week, todayÛªs action could be viewed as the beginning of a new upward swing. But the judgment will have to wait for a confirmation.</br></br>Volume for the day came to 10.87 million shares, down from the 11.87 million turned over on Monday. The pace of trading never challenged the capacity of the exchangeÛªs ticker tape.