91.   Comments by Japanese Finance Minister Wataro Kubo yesterday sparked concern that interest rates in Japan, now at record lows, might rise.

92.   Comments by two regional Federal Reserve bank presidents also tempered concern that economic growth and inflation will pick up speed later this year.

93.   Comments by university students give a taste of the feelings many young Chinese have toward the United States.

94.   Conciliatory comments by a top Communist official further demonstrated that a breakthrough could happen.

95.   Comments by a Bank of Japan official that overnight rates were too low, also sent bonds tumbling.

96.   Comments by American officials reflected a combination sympathy for the Turks and concern about their treatment of Ocalan.

97.   Comments by Bundesbank council member Franz-Christoph Zeitler suggesting the possibility of further cuts in German interest rates also helped push prices higher.

98.   Comments by Bundesbank council member Reimut Jochimsen cast doubts on whether France would be among the first countries to participate in European monetary union.

99.   Comments by Bundesbank officials suggested that money market rates will drop next Wednesday, the day before the Bundesbank meets for the first time since its summer recess.

100.   Comments by Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer weighed on the dollar by tempering hopes for a rate cut.