1.   International financial markets remained volatile following the start of the Gulf crisis.

2.   In Great Britain, the market remained depressed.

3.   Information from local estate agents shows the housing market to remain stagnant.

4.   The free market will remain the key determinant.

5.   Only the Japanese market remained more or less impenetrable.

6.   Although Liggett owns a plant in Russia, where smoking is pandemic, its export markets remain minuscule.

7.   Although mortgage delinquencies rose slightly, the U.S. housing market remains healthy.

8.   Although the U.S. and California job markets remain relatively robust, there are worrisome signs.

9.   Analysts called it another sign that the market remains resilient.

10.   Analysts said, however, the market remained vulnerable until a deal was done.