1.   Apart from changes in interest rates, traders are closely watching U.S. financial markets.

2.   Because of the tight supplies, traders have watched for any threat to the crop.

3.   Bond traders will be watching for more compelling evidence of a slowdown in coming weeks to decide whether the Fed can avoid raising rates.

4.   Bond traders will be watching for more compelling evidence of weak growth in the coming weeks to decide whether the Fed can avoid raising rates.

5.   But job creation and unemployment data will be closely watched by traders, he said, to see when, or if, the Fed cuts rates.

6.   Canadian bond traders are watching the Fed because an easing of U.S. interest rates would facilitate a similar drop by the Bank of Canada, Gregory said.

7.   Canadian traders watch U.S. economic developments closely because they are usually mirrored in Canada, its largest trading partner.

8.   Day traders now watch for the headlines on press releases, hoping they can anticipate action in a stock.

9.   Day traders must watch the market continuously.

10.   Financial market traders were closely watching it for clues to whether the central bank is moving to raise rates.