1.   Analysts said the modest movement in the stock reflected the fact that most investors already assumed Rituxan would be approved.

2.   Analysts said the movement in the stock was modest because most investors had assumed Rituxan would be approved and had bid up the price in advance.

3.   At least, that is what Zaslaw and most investors assume.

4.   Because these services are so numbers oriented, many investors assume they are very scientific, said John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors.

5.   Currently investors can assume the sold shares were bought at the highest price.

6.   For such a flood of money to be going into bonds, investors must be assuming that inflation and interest rates are under control.

7.   He also said investors could not assume that good fundamentals had precipitated the fourth-quarter rallies.

8.   If investors assume every company is pushing the accounting envelope, then those that use more conservative accounting derive no benefit from acting responsibly.

9.   In other words, investors should not assume that traditional patterns will reassert themselves.

10.   Indeed, returns on bonds would appear attractive because investors would no longer assume that double-digit returns in the stock market are a birthright.