1.   And as time passes, fund managers are finding they must lower their yield expectations or give up credit quality.

2.   But a mixed bag of production setbacks, including an untimely wet cold spell in September and localized bouts of drought and insects, has reduced yield expectations.

3.   Corn futures prices were bolstered by talk of lower yield expectations and active export demand.

4.   Corn was mixed as the market weighed harvest delays from rain in the Corn Belt against very bearish yield expectations.

5.   Stocks were mixed as falling bond yields fueled expectations that profits at banks and savings and loans will surpass expectations.

6.   U.S. stocks fell from records as rising bond yields curbed expectations that corporate profit growth will take off later this year.

7.   U.S. stocks also plunged as rising bond yields damped expectations that lower borrowing costs would boost corporate profit growth later this year.

8.   U.S. stocks are expected to fall from records as rising bond yields damp expectations that corporate profit growth will take off later this year.

9.   U.S. stocks rose as falling bond yields fueled expectations that profits at banks and savings and loans will surpass expectations.

10.   The revised forecast reflected expectations that the winter wheat crop will be much larger than previously thought, in part because the plants are far exceeding yield expectations.