11.   In recent weeks, investors have been gaining confidence that an economic rebound is drawing near and that stocks are the place to be.

12.   Investors can gain exposure to racing by buying the shares of track owners.

13.   Investors can gain particular benefits from these corporate decisions to take stakes, but only partial ones, in companies like Mycogen.

14.   Investors will gain more insight into the pace of inflation Tuesday, when the Labor Department reports its consumer price index.

15.   Investors will gain more insight into the pace of wage inflation tomorrow, when the government releases the employment cost index for the second quarter.

16.   Investors will gain more insight into the pace of inflation later this week.

17.   Investors are gaining quicker access to information on property markets as companies file annual and quarterly reports as required by the SEC.

18.   Investors could gain more evidence that the Christmas shopping season is getting off to a slow start.

19.   Investors could gain a sense of whether the Fed is poised to cut rates Friday, when Greenspan gives his semiannual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony to the Senate.

20.   Investors could gain a sense of whether the Fed is poised to cut rates Friday, when Greenspan presents semiannual Humphrey-Hawkins report to the Senate.