31.   In the past year, increasingly bigger banks were put into play, including Barnett Banks Inc., as investors demanded strong earnings growth and stock performance.

32.   Investors are demanding higher bond yields to compensate them for an expected lira devaluation and inflation, bankers said.

33.   Investors are now demanding more compensation for lending money to companies.

34.   Investors demand higher interest rates to buy bonds from lower-rated companies.

35.   Investors demand higher yields on fixed-income investments such as bonds when inflation is expected to accelerate because their payments will be worth less over time.

36.   Investors have demanded the company focus more on its main oil business, saying its diversification into chemicals, natural gas and pipelines made its stock hard to value.

37.   Investors may demand more yield if the economy weakens and defaults accelerate.

38.   Interest rates rise as investors demand a higher reward to shoulder that risk.

39.   Investors are demanding that they shrink their debt as well.

40.   Investors are demanding these securities because they do better if interest rates continue to fall.