71.   Domestic corporate investors often sell this time of year to raise money to pad their bottom lines for the end of the fiscal year in March.

72.   Earlier, investors sold shares of large companies such as Exxon Corp. and Coca-Cola Co. that led the market higher during the past three years.

73.   Does this mean investors should sell their best-performing stocks at the start of each year and load their portfolios with stocks that have performed badly?

74.   Each blink indicates that investors are selling what he holds.

75.   Falling bonds weigh on the dollar by prompting concern that foreign investors will sell U.S. assets and then sell the dollars they get for them.

76.   Falling interest rates tend to weigh on the dollar because investors sell the currency as they exit the market in favor of higher yields elsewhere.

77.   Falling U.S. stocks hurt the dollar because when investors sell U.S. securities, they often convert the dollars received into other currencies.

78.   Falling bond prices hurt the dollar because when foreign investors sell U.S. bonds, they generally convert the dollar proceeds into their own currencies.

79.   Falling stock prices also helped bonds, traders said, as investors sold their equity holdings for safer, fixed-income securities.

80.   Falling stock prices hurt the yen because Japanese and foreign investors selling shares often convert the yen proceeds into other currencies, especially dollars.