71.   Professional investors demand options because they offer a relatively safe and inexpensive way to play a market in myriad ways.

72.   Rising yields on short-term securities indicate investors are demanding a higher rate of return on their investment.

73.   Recently, J. Baker Inc., Stadtlander Drug Co. and other companies postponed bond offerings because investors demanded higher yields than companies were willing to pay.

74.   Should the index show prices for goods and services are rising faster than expected, bond investors will demand more compensation in the form of higher interest rates.

75.   So investors demand that the money they are pouring into these companies be, at the very least, protected by patents.

76.   Some analysts suggested that the Quebec vote will lead to a steady narrowing in the risk premium over comparable U.S. Treasury bonds that investors demand for buying Canadian bonds.

77.   Since inflation erodes the value of fixed-income investments like bonds, investors traditionally demand bond yields about three percentage points higher than the expected inflation rate.

78.   Since the downgrade announcement, the yield premium investors demand to own Asian corporate debt has risen by as much as two percentage points.

79.   Some investors also demanded to know why Farmer Mac had refused to get a debt rating, with one caller even volunteering to pay for it.

80.   Sooner or later, though, investors will demand higher earnings before they bid stock prices higher.