Market Makes Another Gain
NEW YORK (AP)ÛÓHopes for an end to the recent surge of interest rates carried the stock market to its second straight advance yesterday.</br></br>The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials closed at 897.41, adding a 6.18-point gain to its rise of more than 17 points Tuesday.</br></br>Brokers, noting the relatively light turnover of 14.02 million shares on the Big Board, said there was still considerable caution on Wall Street.</br></br>lending rates continued Wednesday as at least one California bank joined in a move to a IOV4 prime, and AtlantaÛªs Citizens & Southern National Bank raised its rate to 10 Vi on existing loans and 10% on new ones.</br></br>The Citizens & Southern announcement set the market back briefly shortly before noon, but then it began climbing again.