21.   Odd-lot trading is just one of the so-called technical indicators that stock market analysts watch in an attempt to predict future price trends.

22.   Officials from the Management and Coordination Agency, which released the CPI report, said the general price trend remains stable.

23.   Speculative investors also drove prices higher, including funds, which use historical price trends to help predict prices.

24.   The annual price trend is also tame.

25.   The dearth of business coming to the U.S. has established a price trend, analysts said.

26.   The price trend led those who went short, selling futures contracts expecting prices would fall, to buy them back.

27.   The producer price index - a leading indicator of retail price trends - continued to be several points higher than the retail price index.

28.   The Richmond Fed reported declines in its major monthly retail and services indexes, but rising price trends.

29.   Those price trends, in turn, have gradually set in motion other potentially dangerous developments, law enforcement officials said.

30.   Tokyo area price data are gathered first and viewed as a leading indicator of price trends across Japan.