41.   OPEC has rejected the idea that a production cut now would hurt the economies of importing nations.

42.   Production cuts will carry over into the third quarter, as well.

43.   Production cuts could be even sharper, if manufacturers are being too optimistic in their projections of fairly vigorous sales as the new model year begins this autumn.

44.   Recent production cuts and fattened rebates by some automakers had sounded alarms that the market was drying up.

45.   Reports that the company is gearing up for another round of layoffs and production cuts left many employees wondering if their jobs were safe.

46.   Semiconductor makers gained as investors shrugged off reports of declining profits and bet production cuts would improve global prices for their products.

47.   Several OPEC members said this week that there was already an agreement to extend the production cuts beyond March.

48.   Shares of Japanese chipmakers fell on concern that lower projected profits at U.S. chip companies and production cuts in Japan signal a longer than expected slump in the industry.

49.   Second, OPEC has had a very high level of compliance with the production cuts they called for.

50.   So the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has made any further production cuts contingent on matching cuts elsewhere.