Stock Prices Up 0.22 In Moderate Trading
PROMOTEDÛÓSears, Roebuck and Co. has promoted Karl M. Globus, left, to sales manager of the Government, Industrial, Builders and Export divisions in its Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area Contract Sales Division, and Alvin Talley contract interiors manager.</br></br>\K\V YORK, April 3 (AP) ÛÓThe lackluster tone of recent slock market sessions continued today as prices drifted upward in moderate trading.</br></br>Analysts attributed the sluggishness to an absence of economic news and to a wait-and-see attitude on the part of some investors who want to assess first-quarter earnings results before reentering the market.</br></br>The Dow Jones average of industrials finished up 0 31! at 940.92. Advances on the New York Stock Exchange were ahead of declines by a hairÛªs breadth.</br></br>Big Board volume rose to 14 99 million shares from 14 36 million shares Thursday. the last session before the three day holiday weekend