1.   Banks such as HSBC Holdings Plc and Hang Seng Bank Ltd. fell after leading benchmark shares higher Monday.

2.   Benchmark property shares slumped after pacing gains this year.

3.   Benchmark share CANTV led the market down amid concern workers there will strike, traders said.

4.   Benchmark shares were mixed at close after rising in early trades.

5.   CANTV shares are expected to become the new benchmark share on the Caracas Stock Exchange.

6.   Deutsche Morgan Grenfell also faced competition from Morgan Stanley Group Inc., which markets similar funds, called Webs, short for world equity benchmark shares.

7.   Even then, some domestic financial institutions started buying benchmark shares after the initial plunge.

8.   In each case, the phone companies became benchmark shares, dramatically increasing trading volumes.

9.   Indian stocks rose for the third day, after having plunged on Monday, amid the view prices of most benchmark shares underrated their expected earnings, analysts said.

10.   Indian stocks fell as concern prices of most benchmark shares may have outstripped their earnings potential doused expectations the stock market regulator will ease rules to encourage forward trading.