21.   There was little news to influence the market, gas industry sources said.

22.   There was little news to influence the market.

23.   There was little other news to influence the markets, he said.

24.   Those markets were influenced by a favorable report on retail sales, said Kansas City Value Line trader Jim Greenwood.

25.   Whenever Greenspan speaks, Fed watchers pick apart his words, looking for clues on interest rate policy and efforts to influence financial markets.

26.   With no economic news to influence the market, traders focused on the impact of the impending auction.

27.   Yet his observations on the changes in the economy are valid and his predictions on how they will influence the markets are not to be dismissed.

28.   A report on the trade deficit, due out Tuesday, is the only economic report expected to influence the market this week.

29.   Commission anti-trust authorities routinely investigate all mergers that could influence EU markets, but most alliances are cleared after a one-month preliminary inquiry.

30.   Dr Mahathir said yet these same people continue to predict, to be believed in and to influence the market.