1.   Computer and software stocks led the advance, which would have been larger except for sliding prices for automakers and retailers.

2.   Analysts said the trend since June of sliding prices for polyethylene and polypropylene resins, and lower volume sales for plastic, is expected to continue through September.

3.   But even before Friday, sliding stock prices had undermined the plans of at least one potential home buyer in metro Atlanta.

4.   Naylor and Teamsters analyst Michael Kapza also faulted Fleming for its sliding stock price.

5.   Share prices of the chipmakers slid today after a report in the Maeil Business Newspaper highlighted the risks of sliding prices.

6.   Sliding stock prices and crumbling currencies throughout much of Asia caused many investors to buy the dollar as a safe haven.

7.   Sliding prices for Treasury bonds damped early stock-market gains, traders said.

8.   To be sure, sliding prices for Treasury bonds may put a damper on any early stock-market rally, traders said.

9.   To be sure, sliding prices for Treasury bonds may put a damper on any early stock-market gain, traders said.