21.   An anticipted rise in Australian output also weakened prices.

22.   But in the days since the Greenspan speech, particularly this week, stock prices weakened on investor fears that a rate hike could be in the offing.

23.   London stock prices were weakened by a lower Wall Street as well as by poor British money supply figures, traders said.

24.   Prices were weakened by profit taking and by weakness on the bond market, an analyst said.

25.   Prices were also weakened by a slight fall of the French franc against the mark and of weakness on Wall Street.

26.   Stock prices were also weakened by a French bond market drop.