11.   Stock prices firmed for the second straight day.

12.   The government bond price rebounded as its futures price firmed, dealers said.

13.   Traders said share prices firmed on arbitrage buying, in which investors seek profits from price differences between the spot and futures markets.

14.   In London prices had begun firmly enough but lost their footing on the release of a poll of buying directors showing that industrial prices were firming.

15.   International steel prices have firmed in the last couple of months after a similar production cut was implemented by some of the global steel majors.

16.   But share prices firmed.

17.   Crude prices firmed further in London Tuesday, on the expectation of OPEC maintaining its curbs but also on continuing tension in the Middle East.

18.   The price of cotton firmed on the Liverpool auction market, rising in the wake of the US market.

19.   Japanese share prices firmed Friday as other Asian bourses closed mixed.

20.   On European markets, prices either firmed or held steady.