31.   Dealers noted that the arrival of spring here is never good for crude prices.

32.   Dealers noted a lack of new momentum.

33.   Dealers noted that export-orientated stocks continued to attract interest.

34.   Dealers noted that with the British interest rate rise on Wednesday, German interest rates were now substantially below those of the Anglo-Saxon countries.

35.   One dealer noted the possibility was rather high that the dollar would remain in the downward trend for the time being, given emerging US rate cut speculation.

36.   Paris dealers noted that the dollar had lost more than eight pfennigs against the mark in just two weeks.

37.   Some foreign selling of blue chips, such as Resorts World and Malaysian International Shipping Corp., depressed the key index, dealers noted.

38.   The BoJ had previously shown itself willing to offer persistent and massive intervention to achieve its aims on behalf of the finance ministry, dealers noted.

39.   The dealer noted the strong sales of marks in cross trading.

40.   The party now faces the task of assembling a coalition government with the Basque and Catalan parties, dealers noted.