61.   Cyclical stocks also dropped sharply as investors were reminded of their uncertainty about a turnaround in corporate profits.

62.   Cyclical stocks are those that move with the business cycle.

63.   Cyclical stocks include those of resource companies, which benefit most when the economy expands.

64.   Cyclical stocks, like metals, chemicals and lumber producers, benefit the most from rapid economic growth.

65.   Cyclical stocks, or stocks whose earnings tend to track economic cycles, gained.

66.   Cyclical stocks, such as chemical producers, steel companies, and resource-based companies, typically rise in times of economic strength.

67.   Cyclical stocks, those most sensitive to economic growth, and retailers gained as well.

68.   Cyclical stocks, which many investors had gathered in anticipation of quick returns in a rapidly reviving economy, tumbled.

69.   Deere and Alcoa are considered cyclical stocks, or ones whose fortunes are tied closely to the health of the economy.

70.   Cyclical European stocks, like chemical and construction companies, performed well earlier this year because they rose on the hopes for a rebound in European economies.