61.   Investors favor such buy-back schemes, which make the stock more attractive by raising earnings per share.

62.   Non-technology issues were mostly lower as investors favored the cheaper prices of high-techs over the safer blue chips that have risen lately.

63.   Non-technology issues were mostly lower as investors generally favored the cheaper prices of high-techs over the safer blue chips that have risen lately.

64.   Non-technology issues fell as investors generally favored the cheaper prices of high-techs over the safer blue chips that have risen lately.

65.   There were worries that non-state networks would support particular parties or candidates and decline to sell air time to those their investors did not favor.

66.   Tobacco and financial issues, areas that investors have favored in recent weeks as hedging in the uncertain economic environment, were strong.

67.   Investors Tuesday favored bank shares, the main losers Monday from rising interest rates, analysts said.

68.   It said most investors favor office properties, followed by industrial sites and retail locations.