31.   Papp avoids buying shares of cyclical companies, whose prospects are closely linked to economic conditions.

32.   Parke looks for weak earnings from cyclical companies like the automakers and retailers.

33.   Right now, a major theme is the revamping of cyclical European companies.

34.   Rising rates hurt old economy stocks such as banks and other financial institutions, retailers, producers of consumer products and growth-related cyclical companies.

35.   Shares in cyclical companies, or businesses whose profits fall and rise in line with economic movements, led the drop.

36.   Shares of Chrysler and other so-called cyclical companies have lagged the broader market recently amid concern about an economic slowdown.

37.   Shares of chemical, auto and heavy-equipment makers -- so-called cyclical companies because their profits rise and fall economic cycles -- helped stocks pare losses.

38.   Shares of paper, chemical and auto companies -- so-called cyclical companies because their profits rise and fall with economic cycles -- would outperform most other stocks.

39.   Shares of so-called cyclical companies -- those most affected by economic trends -- were the hardest hit today.

40.   So-called cyclical companies like metal and paper producers Alcoa and Champion International Corp., whose fortunes are closely tied to economic growth or weakness, rallied the most.