1.   Bandai Co. and Sega Enterprises Ltd. gained on optimism they -- like Sony -- will see rising sales of hit products.

2.   Both GM and Chrysler said their truck sales fell last month, countering a months-long trend of rising truck sales.

3.   Despite subsidized programs like the computer of the million, the biggest obstacle to rising computer sales in Brazil is still household income.

4.   ICA attributed its rising sales to greater construction activity at its Urban and Housing Construction division, as well as from larger sales from its non-construction operations.

5.   Internet Mute Inc., the Cambridge, Mass., company that makes Intermute, has seen rising sales in the same period.

6.   Inventories of goods at U.S. wholesalers decreased in December as rising holiday sales helped clear warehouses, government figures showed.

7.   India itself has a growing software industry that has rapidly rising sales to U.S. companies.

8.   Mexican stocks closed little changed after concern about an unexpected rise in one-month interest rates offset optimism over rising department store sales.

9.   Neither Philip Morris nor R.J. Reynolds attribute their improving results solely to rising cigarette sales.

10.   The company is riding a growing market for computer servers and rising sales of its CLARiiON computer storage devices, analysts said.