91.   Investor-owned banks offset the decline, encouraged by expectations of increased private investment.

92.   In TOKYO, stocks were little changed as gains in machinery and steelmaker shares offset declines in banking and real estate issues.

93.   In transportation systems and automotive systems, international growth failed to offset a decline domestically.

94.   Investors are expecting Pfizer to sweeten its offer, either in more stock or some kind of price protection to offset any decline in their share price.

95.   Investors desperately want to see Yahoo increase ad revenue from old-line companies to offset declines from online companies.

96.   INDONESIAN stocks rose, with a gain in PT Telkom offsetting a decline in banking stocks, which fell on concern that limits on credit growth may crimp earnings.

97.   Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other computer-related stocks gained, offsetting declines in oil and bank shares.

98.   It also got a boost from cost cuts that offset a decline in revenue.

99.   It said that a strong increase in the contribution from Compagnie Bancaire partly offset the decline in the contribution from Banque Paribas.

100.   Japanese stock indexes were little changed as high-tech shares rose, offsetting declines among other companies on a spate of downward earnings revisions.