Further Gains Limited By Profit Taking: Averages Gain in October
NEW YORK. Oft. 31 (ADÛÓProfit taking scrambled stock market prices today as the list topped out two days of vigorous advance. Tlie market ended the month of October with a fair coin.</br></br>The latest rallying phase of the market blotted out the sharp mid-October decline which had some Wall Streeters harking back to the nervous day which preceded the May 28 stock break.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average, thanks to plus signs among some of the pivotal blue chips that compose it, nudged upward .71) to 580.77. This left the Dow with a net gain of 10 79 for the month of October.</br></br>The more comprehensive 500 - stock Standard & PoorÛªs index today eased .02 to 5(1.52, giving ths barometer a net gain of .25 on the month.</br></br>Trading was moderately brisk in the morning but faded to a walk thereafter, putting volume at 3.09 million shares compared with 3.83 million yesterday.