31.   Rising bond yields, which move opposite to bond prices, hurt bank, mortgage and consumer-loan stocks yesterday.

32.   Shares of financial services companies are expected to open weaker, dragged down by rising bond yields.

33.   Shares of banks ended lower, after gaining in morning trading, hurt by rising bond yields.

34.   Some financial stocks retreated in keeping with rising bond yields.

35.   Stocks suffered from rising bond yields, which damped investor enthusiasm for bank shares.

36.   Stocks across the region were dragged lower by rising bond yields.

37.   Sun Oil got caught in a decline among oil stocks, hurt by rising bond yields, which make dividends of oil companies relatively less attractive.

38.   Telecom Corp., meanwhile, fell on rising bond yields.

39.   The drop came after U.S. stocks fell, pulled down by rising bond yields.

40.   The early gains were eaten away by rising bond yields.