11.   Share prices closed mixed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Wednesday after the key index seesawed throughout a languid session with little market direction.

12.   Soybeans drifted up and down in choppy trading for most of the session, with little fresh news to give the market direction.

13.   Stocks were expected to drift down Tuesday in the absence of any important news to give the market direction.

14.   The broker said players on the Bucharest exchange will now start watching Wall Street and other international markets closely to help indicate a market direction.

15.   The Hong Kong market lacked direction in absence of any fresh news, said Miles Remington, a dealer at Socgen-Crosby Securities Ltd.

16.   There was little news to give the market direction today.

17.   They said shares were boosted by futures-related buying, with investors remaining cautious over the direction the market.

18.   Traders said the market lacked direction during the day and that it has been so volatile that any news can provoke erratic shifts in the index.

19.   Unsettling talk about Japanese investors slowing purchase of U.S. assets has influenced currency market directions in the past week, traders said.

20.   What dealerships should do now, according to Chawachart, is to closely follow the market direction and prepare for new opportunities.