11.   All day, investors favored the stocks of large technology companies.

12.   Brazilian stocks fell as rising U.S. interest rates spurred concern that investors will favor fixed-income securities over emerging-market stocks.

13.   Companies with the ability to improve margins may be most favored by investors as the economy recovers and their ability to make profit improves.

14.   Drug companies can decline as interest rates rise because investors favor companies more exposed to economic growth, such as oil companies.

15.   Despite the recent slowdown in initial public offerings, many VC investors still favor IPOs as their so-called exit strategy.

16.   Drug companies can decline as the economy quickens because investors favor companies more exposed to growth, such as oil companies.

17.   During the last few years investors have increasingly favored mutual stock funds that track stock-market indexes, since few other funds have done better.

18.   For instance, he said, investors have favored shares in bank, drug and beverage companies, which are considered safer.

19.   He added foreign investors favor large exporters because they are easy to trade.

20.   He suggested that investors favor large, solid companies whose shares trade at low price-earnings ratios.