61.   Women also believe businesses can improve the situation.

62.   Yet now, as Saturn gets to be more like the rest of GM, business is improving.

63.   A string of murky corporate forecasts have given investors little sense of when business will improve, and therefore little reason to buy.

64.   After a month of lackluster fourth-quarter results and guarded forecasts, investors still lack solid confirmation that business is improving.

65.   Also, both companies failed to say when their businesses would improve and, in the case of Motorola, warned that the next quarter would be disappointing.

66.   Although economic data has steadily improved, first-quarter earnings results this month have been uninspiring and few companies have said business is improving.

67.   Although investors are becoming more confident that business is improving, they are still concerned about the near future and questioning whether stock prices are rising too quickly.

68.   Analysts also said the market will have a tough time climbing above current levels, at least until there are signs that business is improving.

69.   Analysts attributed the lackluster trading to low volume ahead of the Labor Day holiday and continuing doubts that business will improve soon.

70.   Analysts said that until companies start to express confidence that business is improving, a rally is unlikely.