1. Analysts said falling interest rates also helped boost stock prices on optimism borrowing rates would boost corporate earnings. 2. Boost prices by another half-buck and tobacco companies are bound to lose business. 3. Concern that an offshore platform owned by Mobil Corp. in the Gulf of Mexico reduced production helped boost prices. 4. Concern about the condition of the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop helped boost wheat futures prices. 5. Hot, dry weather in Brazil, where farmers are finishing planting a new crop to be harvested in March, helped boost prices, traders said. 6. If the two boost prices to cover their costs, will there still be enough customers left to make this a big company? 7. Overseas buying helped boost prices earlier today, traders said. 8. Rather than boost prices for goods and services, hard-hit employers must slash labor costs -- the largest single expense for businesses, Schlossberg said. 9. The main thing the company will need to do is boost prices, President and Chief Executive Alan Hoops said in the call. 10. The main thing the company will need to do is boost prices, Hoops said in the call. |