11.   For example, some small stocks are cyclical, meaning their profits rise and fall with economic cycles rather than grow steadily over the long haul.

12.   Manufacturers of durable goods saw their profits rise during the quarter, while auto, aircraft and apparel manufacturers posted a decline.

13.   Most analysts had forecast a profit rise.

14.   Out of six listed Chinese automobile makers, only one saw first half profits rise, two saw profits fall and three lost money.

15.   Pinault-Printemps said the first-half profit rise included the impact of a recent proposed increase on corporate taxes, the company said.

16.   Prospects for steady interest rates probably mean further gains for financial shares and companies such as automakers whose profits rise and fall with the economy, Eagan said.

17.   Shareholders skidded right past the profit rise, focused on the sales drop and spent the day dumping Kodak stock.

18.   Shares of paper, chemical and auto companies -- so-called cyclical companies because their profits rise and fall with economic cycles -- would outperform most other stocks.

19.   Should the president stump for corporations to cut down on the disparities between executive pay and workers pay, and for corporations to raise salaries as profits rise?

20.   That concern hurt shares of so-called cyclical stocks, shares of companies whose profits rise and fall depending on how the economy performs.