1.   AUSTRIAN bonds were little changed as a slowdown in the pace of German money supply growth in July kept alive expectations for interest rate cuts in Germany and Austria.

2.   That go-for-growth strategy is keeping alive expectations interest rates can be cut once more in the next month or two.

3.   The article kept alive expectations that a rate cut could occur in the next few weeks.

4.   The Bank of France lowered the ceiling for French money market rate while leaving the floor rate unchanged, keeping alive expectations for further cuts.

5.   The Bank of France lowered the ceiling for French money market rates and left the floor rate unchanged, keeping alive expectations for further cuts.

6.   The strength of the German currency kept alive expectations of lower German interest rates, which would immediately boost the appeal of short-term securities.

7.   The U.S. currency fell after comments by Bundesbank Vice President Johann Wilhelm Gaddum kept alive expectations that the German central bank was poised to raise its benchmark interest rate.