1.   A reduction in the capital gains tax should also help the sector, he said.

2.   In fact, unlike Yeltsin, we plan to help this sector, including farmers, both through discount credits and through our pricing policy.

3.   The move will help some sectors of the economy immediately.

4.   The sector has been helped this year by continued merger-and-acquisition activity, some of which will allow highly leveraged companies to improve their balance sheets.

5.   The upbeat retail report helped the sector.

6.   Mr Chown said the engineering sector would be helped if the government speeded-up some of its infrastructure projects.

7.   The enthusiasm also helped other sectors.

8.   Expectations banks would soon cut rates due to excess liquidity helped other sectors to gain, she added.

9.   The decree also detailed a series of measures to help the sector, which largely collapsed in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union.