1.   Retailers often look to the budget for strategic price direction, with the new post-budget prices acting as a benchmark for future price levels.

2.   There was very little news to stimulate price direction, trade source said.

3.   These days in the lunar cycle tend to trigger changes in price direction.

4.   Under a financial futures contract, an investor bets on the price direction of government bonds, deposit rates and currencies.

5.   Expected increases in refined products stocks in inventory reports to be released Tuesday and Wednesday should set price direction lower in the short-term, Evans said.

6.   The currency factor remains as the major determinant of price direction.

7.   The Malaysian ringgit-US dollar relationship will remain key to the price direction of this market.

8.   Traders are looking to inventory reports to provide some price direction.