1.   Analysts, he indicated, can easily find themselves favoring the stock of a company that is competing with the interests of an important client.

2.   Analysts said investors were favoring these stocks because their sales would be expected to hold up relatively well even as the economy slowed.

3.   Bonds may not recover if investors favor stocks during the next few days, he added.

4.   Bonds may not recover if investors favor stocks during the next few days, Iwamatsu said.

5.   Both Muhlenkamp and Coffelt favor financial stocks.

6.   After favoring Japanese stocks early in the year, international investors moved toward other Asian markets in the third quarter.

7.   All day, investors favored the stocks of large technology companies.

8.   Boulos and other analysts still favor the stock.

9.   But David Bowers, global chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, says it is not yet time to favor foreign stocks.

10.   But the shift took place during a period when the market favored larger stocks and the fund has suffered accordingly.