11.   At a time of huge gains for the stock market and a banner time for new offerings, four of those stocks have lost value and three have gained.

12.   Basically, bond funds of all sorts lose principal value when interest rates rise, or when the market sentiment is that they are likely to rise.

13.   Banks got a boost from a sign their troubled real-estate loans may stop losing value.

14.   Banks, whose massive bond holdings lose value when yields rise, were particularly hard hit.

15.   Besides bank stocks, shares of securities companies, electronics companies and electric utilities lost value on Monday, as they did last week.

16.   Bigger names in telecommunications have also lost value over that time, but not as much.

17.   Bond buyers demand premiums in the form of higher yields when inflation is expected to quicken because their fixed payments would lose value over time.

18.   Bonds lost value amid concern a July surge in durable good orders could prompt the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to keep inflation from accelerating.

19.   Bonds of bank and cable companies in particular are losing value, investors said.

20.   Bonds of UAL, by contrast, lost value, amid speculation the airline may incur debt as part of a possible purchase.