11.   Bonds posted their first weekly decline in four weeks.

12.   Brady bonds posted equally steep declines for six consecutive sessions shortly after Mexico allowed the peso to devalue, for example.

13.   By comparison, U.S. stocks yesterday made their biggest three-day rally since early August and bonds posted their biggest gain in seven weeks.

14.   Ecuador bonds posted the sharpest gains in Latin America.

15.   For the week, bonds posted their first weekly decline in four weeks.

16.   GERMAN shares fell as U.S. bonds posted the biggest decline in two months after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan raised concern interest rates might rise.

17.   German bonds posted their biggest loss in three months.

18.   In early afternoon New York trading, U.S. Treasury bonds posted their biggest decline in three months.

19.   In New York yesterday, U.S. bonds posted the largest gains in eight days after the two economic reports helped quell concern over an imminent rate hike.

20.   In other trading today, Brady bonds posted slight declines in tandem with U.S. government bonds, which back many Brady securities.