11.   Healthy domestic demand helped offset the weaker exports.

12.   Lackluster demand is helping inventories swell.

13.   Lower demand may help inventories of heating oil and other distillate fuels close a gap behind last year, when they plunged amid a long, cold winter.

14.   Only Honda Motor, helped by demand for its subcompacts and minivans in Japan, increased output.

15.   Price increases that held firm last year and decent, though not spectacular, demand should help most steelmakers post higher profits this year, industry officials say.

16.   Robust demand from restaurants helped to drain warehouse inventories to their lowest levels in more than four decades.

17.   Rising demand will help companies like LSI Logic sell more chips as they expand their manufacturing capacity.

18.   Sluggish consumer demand is also helping to keep prices in check.

19.   Strong demand will help reduce the price of videoconferencing systems, he said.

20.   Stronger export demand helped lift corn futures.