81.   It identifies six trends investors should focus on when deciding what stocks to buy as a play on the consumer comeback.

82.   Investors will focus instead on the same favored growth stocks, expanding perhaps to include electric utilities, which will benefit from lower interest rates.

83.   Kansas City wheat futures and Chicago grain and soybeans futures prices drifted lower Thursday as investors focused on prospects for bumper crops and good harvesting weather.

84.   Latin American investors have focused on fiscal and current account deficits in Brazil because similar economic problems led a number of Asian currencies to devalue.

85.   Lower rates make bonds and bank deposits less appealing than shares to, making investors focus on bank stocks.

86.   Looking ahead to next week, investors will be focusing on economic data out of the U.S. amid a dearth of coroporate earnings reports.

87.   Mazda led Japanese stocks lower this morning as investors focused on the bad news in the auto industry.

88.   Market reaction to the GDP report was limited because investors are focusing on what the LDP comes up with.

89.   Meanwhile, investors are still focusing on Washington to see if the Clinton administration and Republican lawmakers can agree on a budget before Friday.

90.   Meanwhile, investors focused on the prospect of a sweetened offer from one or more of the companies in this struggle or from another drug industry titan.