1.   And as the capital base weakens, investors no longer want to hold the stocks, and this selling further depresses the shares.

2.   A drop in stock buying by foreign investors depressed shares of many other companies.

3.   A fresh round of mergers prompted by removal of Depression-era barriers, he reasons, could depress shares of acquirers.

4.   A recent depreciation of the peso against the dollar also depressed shares in leading utilities, which have borrowed abroad to finance their expansion over the last few years.

5.   Canadian stocks are expected to decline as lower bullion prices depress gold shares and weaker bond prices weigh on bank stocks, traders and analysts said.

6.   Comments by the president of the Chilean central bank also depressed shares of the utilities today, Dewers said.

7.   German stocks gained after the dollar reversed an early decline against the deutsche mark, which depressed shares in export companies.

8.   German stocks were mixed after the dollar reversed an early decline against the deutsche mark, which depressed shares in export companies.

9.   Lower base metal prices may depress shares of metal producers such as Cominco Ltd., Inco Ltd., and Alcan Aluminium Ltd.

10.   Lower gold bullion prices depressed shares of gold producers.