1.   Although investors have favored that strategy for some time, they were not impressed.

2.   Analysts said investors were favoring these stocks because their sales would be expected to hold up relatively well even as the economy slowed.

3.   As a result, investors favored shares in food companies over department store chains.

4.   AUSTRALIAN bonds fell as equities rose, temporarily dimming optimism that fixed-income investments will be favored by investors wary of further falls in stock markets.

5.   Because government rules now result in IPO prices being much lower than market prices, many stock investors favor the new issues, often shunning other stocks.

6.   Bonds may not recover if investors favor stocks during the next few days, he added.

7.   Between the two main coalitions, most investors favor the center-left Olive Tree coalition over the Freedom Alliance, its center-right rival.

8.   Bonds may not recover if investors favor stocks during the next few days, Iwamatsu said.

9.   Bond and currency investors favor a European single currency system governed by strict rules on deficits, which would curb government borrowing and preserve the value of existing bonds.

10.   Bond investors favor low inflation because it preserves the value of the fixed income they get from bonds.