1.   Carl Palash, chief economist at MCM MoneyWatch in New York, said the market was definitely waiting on the Fed.

2.   Four months later, the markets were still waiting.

3.   He added the market could be waiting for more third-quarter earnings reports due out later this week.

4.   Local financial markets have been waiting for the resolution since the finance ministry announced two weeks ago that some modification was imminent.

5.   Plagued by distribution difficulties, inflated estimates of demand and bureaucratic red tape, more businesses are leaving China, deciding that the market can wait.

6.   That wider market may not wait.

7.   The market is waiting for an assessment of the crop this month from Leon Yallouz, an influential private crop forecaster.

8.   Tuesday, the market will be waiting to see consumer confidence data from the New York-based Conference Board.

9.   Traders said the market was waiting to see if the U.S. stock and bond markets will continue to weigh on the dollar when they open this evening.

10.   Yet Euroland offers a tantalizing mixture of opportunity and risk at precisely the moment when markets are nervously waiting to discover just how far instability will spread.