1.   Also a winner was AMR, parent of American Airlines, which is expected to benefit from energy price declines.

2.   Also, the recent price declines in cigar stocks may have made them bargains.

3.   An OPEC committee adjourned a meeting in Vienna after discussing the price decline.

4.   Analysts cited bargain-hunting after recent price declines.

5.   And since uranium has limited uses, price declines do not stimulate demand.

6.   And the price declines have wreaked havoc elsewhere.

7.   Another threat comes from politicians who are demanding that the Bank of Japan adopt an inflation target to battle price declines.

8.   Any price decline hits private-label makers the hardest, since its big advantage with consumers is in their wallets.

9.   Bonds also got support as traders began to buy futures contracts to offset earlier contracts they had entered as a hedge against price declines on their cash bond holdings.

10.   Bonds also got support as traders continued to buy futures contracts to offset earlier contracts they had entered as a hedge against price declines on their cash bond holdings.