1.   And the price could get higher before the auction ends Friday.

2.   Consumer price growth could be forced higher before the end of the year as the government is expected to announce an increase in value-added tax, economists said.

3.   Debt-equity swaps could push debt prices higher before U.S. sanctions end, Thomas said.

4.   Each of the indexes had been moderately higher before the announcement.

5.   Securities firms often drive yields higher before such sales to drum up demand from investors.

6.   Securities firms typically push yields higher before the sales to help drum up demand.

7.   Technology and financial stocks, which pulled the market higher before leading this decline, were battered again Friday.

8.   The major bond firms that underwrite the debt often drive yields higher before the sales to assure demand from their customers.

9.   The scarcity of silver at a time of robust manufacturing demand could send the precious metal even higher before the end of the year.

10.   This helped send prices down and yields higher even before the afternoon testimony on the state of the economy by the Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan.