31.   The U.S. bond market also gained.

32.   Traders expect the bond market to gain support from continued strong demand.

33.   U.K. stocks, led by Glaxo Wellcome Plc, rose after U.S. equity markets gained yesterday on optimism over earnings.

34.   Traders said they expect the bond market to gain support from continued strong demand.

35.   While blue-chip issues weakened, the secondary market gained some strength partly from technology issues.

36.   But the bond market gained ground.

37.   Chilean equities had declined even as international markets gained in previous days.

38.   Financial markets gained ground Thursday after the resignation of a minister who had opposed an IMF-backed strategy aimed at pulling Turkey out of its economic malaise.

39.   Foreign financial markets gained ground.

40.   In Asia, some markets later gained ground and some that fell were able to contain their damage better than New York markets had.