New York, Mar, 2, Continued tow silver prices in London and New York are attributed in part to the fact that India began levying an import duty, effective yesterday, and in part to general "causes of more. far-reaching nature, Trade in the Shanghai district, according to Commerce reports, better than in the Tientsin area, It was pointed out that nearly 100 Nosth China companies, chiefly engaged in small export trade, have closed their doors, With heavy surpluses of sugar, wheat and cotton, causing dif culty in the maintaining of prices, come ined with a low price of silver and a shortage of gold, econom! ave considerably puzzled by present situation, Some decline to forecast; others say that in the event that spring business fails to gain its customary momentum, anything might happen to the stock market—United Press,
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