Stock Prices Decline Again: Profit Taking Sends Market Down Again
NEW YORK, March 30 (AP)ÛÓThe stock market posted its second decline in a row today in another session given over to profit taking.</br></br>Big Board volume remained sluggish at 17.93 million shares, up just a bit from MondayÛªs 12-week low of 16.10 million.</br></br>Nationwide volume in NYSE-listed issues, including trades in those stocks on regional exchanges and in the over-the-counter market, came to 20.91 million shares.</br></br>The Dow was down nearly 10 points early in the afternoon, and then made a brief recovery to stand at minus 3 before slipping back again in the last half hour. ...</br></br>There was little agreement among brokers over any specific reasons in the economic news for the marketÛªs twists and turns.