1.   His shareholder returns at Exxon usually match the broad market indexes whose advances have been paced by companies making computer software or chips.

2.   Long-distance phone companies paced the advance.

3.   Property companies paced the decline on expectations a new round of interest rate increases to bolster the peso will increase the cost of mortgages and slow economic growth.

4.   Property companies paced the decline.

5.   Shares of Samsung Group companies paced the retreat.

6.   Technology companies paced the overall stock market much of the year.

7.   Telephone and tobacco companies paced the decline.

8.   The three biggest computer companies paced a rally in that industry.