1.   A new accounting rule from the Financial Accounting Standards Board may buoy companies that use stock options to pay employees, analysts said.

2.   Computer-related companies were buoyed by a strong performance on Wall Street by shares of U.S. chipmakers.

3.   Executives with the vision, ingenuity and courage to go against the grain of convention can buoy their companies to new heights while competitors are sinking.

4.   Financial services companies were buoyed by renewed merger talk.

5.   HONG KONG stocks rose as declining U.S. bond yields buoyed property companies.

6.   It could also buoy property companies hard hit by concern the high cost of mortgages will pummel their sales.

7.   New accounting rules the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued yesterday will buoy companies that use stock options to pay employees, analysts said.

8.   The larger oil companies have been buoyed by a strong export market and a domestic construction boom.

9.   The telecommunications products company was buoyed by a better-than-expected earnings report from networking rival Juniper Networks.