41.   Other gainers included oil companies, which extended gains amid concern the explosion in Saudi Arabia and a possible embargo on Nigerian oil could limit supplies.

42.   Other stocks extended earlier gains after U.S. stocks opened higher.

43.   Retailers, many of which reported better-than-expected earnings earlier in the week, extended recent gains.

44.   Retailers, such as Carrefour SA and Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA, could extend recent gains.

45.   Shares of Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd. and three companies in the Singapore Technologies group extended their gains as investors anticipate the planned merger of the four companies.

46.   Singapore stocks may extend their gains next week as the island nation is seen as one of the stronger economies in the region, investors said.

47.   SINGAPORE stocks rose, as electronics stocks extended their gains for the sixth day on expectations of a recovery in electronics demand.

48.   Singapore stocks extended their gains as investors bid up banking and property shares that tumbled in the wake of an interest-rate scare on Friday.

49.   SOUTH AFRICAN stocks are expected to extend gains in coming days, after growing confidence that interest rates will be cut propelled them to all-time highs in recent weeks.

50.   Still, analysts reserved judgement on whether the U.S. currency would extend its gains in the coming days.