1.   Already, the lack of a pilot contract is hurting Delta by depressing its stock price.

2.   Also depressing stocks today was a plunge in bonds following a breakdown in federal budget talks between Congress and President Bill Clinton.

3.   Analysts said nervousness that the trading statement would be worse depressed the stock in recent weeks.

4.   Another is Ennis Business Forms, whose stock has been depressed because people claim the business forms industry is dead, with everyone using laptops and laser printers.

5.   Better-than-expected results could depress stocks on concern that higher interest rates -- which increase corporate borrowing costs -- are around the corner.

6.   Better-than-expected results could also depress stocks on concern that higher interest rates -- which increase corporate borrowing costs -- are around the corner.

7.   A jump in U.S. interest rates, which depressed stocks around the world, contributed to the decline in Chile.

8.   A news report about the Federal Reserve sent bond prices downward at first, helping to depress stocks.

9.   A steeper-than-expected rise in U.S. factory orders for durable goods sparked concern interest rates may be headed higher, though it failed to depress stocks.

10.   All the same, a larger-than-expected rise in rates would depress stocks further.