31.   For the time being, advocates of small-cap stocks must be satisfied that investors are at least starting to look down the food chain.

32.   If bond investors start demanding more yield as compensation for expected higher inflation, pushing down prices, stocks may start to look high-priced in comparison.

33.   If international investors start to worry that the plan is going to get caught in protracted infighting in Washington, the markets could go haywire.

34.   If Japanese investors start lending more in foreign currencies in and buying more foreign bonds they will need more dollars to do that, so the dollar rose.

35.   If trading in a particular stock rises all of a sudden, coinciding with an advance in its price, an investor should start asking questions.

36.   If attitudes have changed, analysts say, it is because individual investors are starting to grow tired of watching their stocks sink.

37.   If time runs short for Thomson, investors could start looking for better returns someplace else.

38.   In fact, in recent weeks, investors started to return to the beaten-down chip-equipment stocks after analysts began sounding the all-clear.

39.   Investors are already starting to worry.

40.   Investors are starting to move more money to international stock funds as the U.S. stock market declines.