1.   Buyers retreated to the sidelines due to continued poor investor sentiment, but share prices closed off their lows on selective bargain- hunting, brokers said.

2.   Selective bargain hunting lifted some stocks.

3.   They attributed the tech rally to selective bargain hunting rather than an investor endorsement of the sector.

4.   They attributed the tech rally to selective bargain hunting rather than overall endorsement of the sector.

5.   Hong Kong share prices closed slightly higher in morning trade Wednesday on selective bargain hunting after gains on Wall Street, dealers said.

6.   Brokers said investors went immediately into a spree of selective bargain hunting as the impact on Hong Kong from the collapse of British merchant bank Barings was minimal.

7.   Brokers said share prices were buoyed by selective bargain hunting among blue chip issues in a broad spread of sectors.

8.   Most blue-chip stocks were mixed following some late selective bargain hunting.

9.   Selective bargain hunting in the wake of the latest batch of corporate earnings in Japan contributed to the advance Tuesday, they said.

10.   Stocks finished mixed Thursday as investors sought out selective bargains in a market battered by recent terrorism alerts and the continued tension between Pakistan and India.