11.   Such borrowing, known as margin debt, typically grows fastest when the market is performing well, as it has over the last three years.

12.   The process is complicated because it involves guesstimates about how investment markets will perform in the future.

13.   The projection assumes that the financial markets would perform only modestly over the next year.

14.   The tech sector often seems to rise and fall regardless of how the broader market performs.

15.   Thomas of Putnam said many international and Asia funds are buying more Japanese stocks in part because other Asian markets are performing poorly or seem risky.

16.   To show how European markets are performing compared with the U.S. Dow Industrial Index, type ticker of market index, followed by Index INDU Index HSN.

17.   Whether individuals would be better off depends on how the market performs, their earnings, and how Social Security is altered.

18.   When the market performed poorly in previous times, investors slowed their purchases of new funds.

19.   While some Asian countries probably have a better outlook than others, predicting which markets will perform best is more difficult.

20.   Ahmad Sarji noted that PNB had announced much lower dividend rates before, even when the market was performing well.