21.   If, as some analysts argue, it was professional traders caught short by overseas events and in need of quick cash, the market should stabilize quickly.

22.   Investment trust companies and life insurers agreed today to refrain from selling stocks and maintain net buying positions until the market stabilizes.

23.   Luckily, markets stabilized, but those events may have been the tremor before the earthquake, and that was only four months ago.

24.   Meirelles said the Central Bank might lower interest rates if financial markets stabilized.

25.   New corporate bond sales have generally been put on hold until investors regain a measure of confidence and financial markets stabilize.

26.   Since then, markets have stabilized, and the fund has steadily reduced the riskiness of its holdings and improved its investment results.

27.   Singson said the rate would be brought down once the market stabilizes.

28.   So it was a great relief to many people that the market stabilized in January.

29.   Some corporate bond sales have been put on hold until investors regain a measure of confidence and financial markets stabilize.

30.   Some economists said the numbers suggested the job market may be stabilizing after severe cutbacks caused by the terrorist attacks and the recession.