Stocks Rise Irregularly on Quiet Trading: Coppers Stage Late Rally
NEW YORK, March 14 UPlÛÓStock market turnover was at about the lowest level of the year today in an indecisive session which found prices irregularly higher at the close.</br></br>The market was higher at the start, continuing yesterdayÛªs fair rise. But then profittaking got to work and many gains melted | away.</br></br>Prices were mixed most of the day and | trading was so quiet that it looked as if 1 sales would be at their lowest point in the year. Volume picked up in the last half hour, however, as coppers and other non-ferrous metals paced a rallying tendency which put the list definitely on the upside by the close, but not by much.</br></br>Turnover totaled 1,580,000 shares, about the same as on Feb. 26 which was the quietest session since 1,390,000 shares changed hands last Oct. 23.</br></br>Continued doubt about the Middle East and also about the prospects for cuts in the national budget kept many investors on the sidelines. Wall Street observers said.