1.   Their saving schemes, if safe, are boring and investors get alarmed by the low interest rates.

2.   Among the reports that alarmed investors early was one from the Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve.

3.   Any further turnover would surely alarm investors.

4.   Beijing recently alarmed foreign investors when a top official seemed to slam the door on foreign investment in Internet companies.

5.   Bond investors were alarmed by a report of strong manufacturing conditions from the National Association of Purchasing Management.

6.   A big writedown could alarm investors, who were told in December by GEC that cost-overruns on key contracts were mostly behind.

7.   But President-elect Hugo Chavez, whose populist speeches last year alarmed foreign investors, has so far surprised analysts by adopting a conciliatory approach to business.

8.   But that fear did not alarm investors.

9.   Emerging market debt prices plunged in New York as traders and investors were alarmed by plunging currencies in Asia and their effect on other emerging markets.

10.   He said that the job reductions should not alarm investors.