11.   Government funds intervened by purchasing shares -- which lifted sentiment at the same time street protests against the leadership of the defeated Nationalist Party were dwindling.

12.   In Australia, share prices closed sharply higher as strong gains in gold and oil stocks lifted overall sentiment and prompted solid overseas buying.

13.   On the stock market, the Nikkei index started higher after sentiment was lifted by a rebound on Wall Street.

14.   Sentiment was also lifted by hopes that more troubled Japanese banks will receive government funds.

15.   Talk of Taiwanese and Malaysian government plans to stabilize their markets lifted investor sentiment there.

16.   The conflict has lifted anti-Israeli sentiments to new heights throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds.

17.   The rally on Wall Street was helping to lift sentiment in Tokyo, traders said.

18.   The strengthening of the Japanese yen and other regional currencies also lifted market sentiment, analysts said.

19.   They said the strengthening of ringgit against the US dollar, which in the past week had positive influence, did little to lift market sentiments.

20.   They said the strengthening of the ringgit against the US dollar, which in the past week has positive influence, did little to lift sentiments on Monday.