1.   Bank profits benefit from stable or lower interest rates.

2.   Banks, whose profits benefit when interest rates are low and borrowing activity is brisk, gained.

3.   A mixed bag of economic reports failed to dent optimism that corporate profits will benefit from a slow-growth, low-inflation economy.

4.   All profits will benefit the Jazz Foundation of America and Music Cares, which both offer financial and medical support to destitute jazz musicians.

5.   But Sony said operating profits benefited from cost cutting and from strong business in Asia and the United States and with an improvement in the economy in Europe.

6.   Chevron, Exxon Corp. and Texaco Inc. said profits benefited from higher oil and natural gas prices.

7.   Companies whose profits benefit most from accelerating growth in the economy, such as Caterpillar Inc. and DuPont Co. are expected to lead the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher.

8.   Corporate profits also should benefit from falling interest rates, which may spur economic growth later this year, analysts said.

9.   Corporate profits have benefited this year from steady economic growth and stable interest rates, and so have stocks.

10.   Corporate profits benefited this year from steady growth and stable interest rates, and so did stocks.