1.   Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market, selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world.

2.   Alpargatas Saic, a textile and footwear maker, and Renault automaker Ciadea SA led the market lower.

3.   American Express Corp. led the market higher amid speculation it could be a takeover target.

4.   Among the stocks leading the market lower in addition to Nortel and Dell were Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm, JDS Uniphase, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

5.   Analysts said the market was led down by concerns that higher interest rates and a strong dollar could slow the economy and weaken corporate earnings.

6.   Among the stocks leading the market down were General Motors, Home Depot, Sprint PCS, Qualcomm, Cisco Systems and Dell Computer.

7.   Analysts said LG Information, Sungmi Telecom Electronics Co. and other telecommunications shares will lead the market higher next month.

8.   And yet, Genentech leads the market.

9.   As a result, shorter-maturity paper led the market higher.

10.   Atacocha SA, Perubar SA and utility Edegel SA led the market higher.