21.   Prices of Treasury securities were higher Wednesday for the second consecutive session on a stronger dollar and optimism that Republican gains would help the fixed-income market.

22.   Schroders said its investment banking profit was helped by gains in its mergers advisory business.

23.   Siemens said that, overall, international gains helped compensate for a sluggish domestic market.

24.   SPANISH stocks rose, helped by gains among the electricity companies, which offset losses among the banks, analysts and fund managers said.

25.   Stocks were helped by gains in bonds after an industry report suggested that manufacturing is slowing enough to keep inflation subdued.

26.   Stock gains have obviously helped keep shoppers on spending sprees, which in turn have kept the economy moving.

27.   Stock gains help the dollar because global investors buying U.S. securities need dollars to pay for them.

28.   Texas stocks climbed to record highs this week, helped by gains in shares of Pride Petroleum Services Inc. and Vallen Corp.

29.   The gain helped bonds because a stronger U.S. currency makes dollar-denominated securities more attractive to international investors.

30.   The gain helped lift crude oil prices.