101.   To encourage bookings, many hotels are cutting rates.

102.   Those reports, allaying concerns about inflation and indicating businesses have little incentive to create new goods, would appear to bolster the case for aggressively cutting rates.

103.   Traders of interest rate futures are betting the chancellor will do something about it by cutting rates before year-end.

104.   Wages growth and inflation had been regarded as the impediment to cutting rates.

105.   When the Federal Reserve Board ignited hopes of a short-lived downturn by cutting rates, media stocks became downright giddy.

106.   With inflation at bay, the central bank should not have second thoughts about cutting rates, economists said.

107.   With inventories shrinking, the Fed cutting rates quickly and Congress moving to cut taxes, economic statistics will soon improve, the optimists add.

108.   With the election settled and the Federal Reserve cutting rates, the market averages were climbing.

109.   Analysts predicted the Fed could keep cutting rates until the markets regain confidence.

110.   But given the continued downward tug of the stock market, some economists believe the Fed will have to do more to restore confidence than simply cutting rates further.