91.   Rising rates and a slowing economy can put downward pressure on the stock market.

92.   Shipments of gasoline headed for the region should soon alleviate the supply tightness, allowing market forces to exert downward pressure on prices.

93.   Small, thinly traded companies are especially susceptible to downward pressure from short selling, as word gets out that institutional traders are betting against them.

94.   Some downward pressure will be required.

95.   Still, lofty valuation concern is leading some domestic investors to sell their shares, putting downward pressure on stocks.

96.   Still, there will be less downward pressure from producer hedging, and that is a positive for gold.

97.   Such moves, the explanation goes, put intense downward pressure on the relatively illiquid small-cap stocks, setting up the conditions for a January rebound.

98.   Such purchasing cooperatives can put downward pressure on insurers to cut premiums and improve the care of patients.

99.   Supplies in Singapore and the Middle East are growing, adding to downward pressure on prices.

100.   Summers in the past has stressed his reluctance to tap the national oil reserve as a way to put downward pressure on oil prices.