1.   Amazon.com may be a signal that the IPO market is improving, investors said.

2.   Analyst Byron Callan of Merrill Lynch, in a note to clients Monday, wrote that he believes the commercial aviation market could soon improve.

3.   Andersen said Boeing believes the market will improve for longer-range planes.

4.   As the commercial market improves, said Peter Aseritis, an analyst with CS First Boston, McDonnell Douglas should win its share of orders.

5.   Bonds slid after an unexpected drop in claims for initial unemployment benefits suggested to some investors and traders that the job market was improving.

6.   A construction industry survey from earlier this month showed that the housing market improved in December for the first time in seven months.

7.   But analysts said a resurgence by Culturefinder could open the door for a stampede by commercial rivals if the online advertising market improves.

8.   Bush is willing to trust the market to improve Social Security.

9.   But the job market has improved so much that some economists consider the nation is now at full employment.

10.   But the labor market clearly improved last month.