11.   Easing concern about inflation in the U.S. Treasury market helped to fuel those gains.

12.   Drug issues fueled the gains.

13.   Expectations for strong earnings fueled gains in Merck and other drugmakers.

14.   Export stocks Hoechst AG and Daimler AG fueled the gains, as the U.S. dollar pared losses against the deutsche mark.

15.   Evidence the economy is weak enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates at its policymaking meeting next month also fueled gains, traders said.

16.   Fueling the gains was speculation that the struggling health-care company could be taken over by a rival such as Oxford Health Plans Inc.

17.   Gains in Cisco Systems, Nortel, EMC and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter helped to fuel the gain.

18.   Gains will be fueled by rising sales of personal computers, as well as rising profit from its computer chip arm, analysts said.

19.   He said short covering, or buying to cover bets that the bonds would fall, fueled gains.

20.   In Minnesota, higher profits in the service, wholesale trade, and finance, insurance, and real estate industry fueled income gains in the state last year.