1.   Investors like lower interest rates because they make stocks more attractive to hold than other investments.

2.   Although most financial advisers recommend checking on a portfolio far less often, this is just the sort of information that a Quicken-crazed investor likes to have.

3.   American investors clearly like their economy to grow, but not too fast.

4.   American Radio has an aggressive acquisition strategy -- which investors like even though the earnings history is checkered.

5.   Analyst Adam Hamilton, with McAdams Wright Ragen, said long-term investors should like what they are hearing from Amazon.

6.   And although potential investors would like to believe they make decisions on a purely analytical basis, the reality is that they are swayed by enthusiasm.

7.   And investors like the fundamental backdrop in the U.S. -- an expanding economy with falling interest rates and growing profits.

8.   And investors still like the fundamental backdrop in the U.S. -- an expanding economy with falling interest rates and growing profits.

9.   Apparently the only thing American investors like more than a mutual fund is a tax break.

10.   Apparently, investors liked what new Celera Chief Operating Officer Peter Chambre said at the briefing.