31.   The gain helped pull up other Southeast Asian currencies.

32.   The gain helped lift crude oil prices as traders wait to see whether a three-day old strike by refinery workers in Kuwait will limit supplies.

33.   The gain helped lift crude oil, as traders wait to see whether a three-day-old strike by refinery workers in Kuwait will limit supplies.

34.   The gain will help offset some of the restructuring charge.

35.   The gains helped push crude oil prices higher.

36.   The late gain by bonds helped push stock prices up too.

37.   The magazine says pent-up demand and productivity gains will help autos, chemicals, computers, semiconductors and steel.

38.   The manufacturing gains helped send Treasury bonds lower --and interest rates higher.

39.   The robust earnings gains also helped lift the shares of other drug makers.

40.   The rally in stocks was helped by gains among technology and telecommunications shares and by cyclical stocks, which tend to benefit from low interest rates.