11.   The decline helped push crude oil prices lower.

12.   The decline in yields helped knock the dollar lower against most other major currencies.

13.   The decline on Wall Street helped send foreign stocks down on Tuesday.

14.   The decline helped drive down prices of crude oil, the raw material.

15.   The decline helped propel a rise in stock and bond prices on Monday.

16.   The decline helps explain the drop in underwriting fees, since those sales provide the biggest underwriting fees to investment banks.

17.   The decline helped curb speculation that investors may begin to shift funds from government debt to stocks.

18.   The prices of key commodities, whose decline helped restrain inflation the last few years, are climbing again.

19.   Those declines are helping to expose what has been a chronic lack of new hits, or even serviceable new shows.

20.   An overnight decline on Wall Street helped drag share prices lower in Tokyo, Manila and Singapore Thursday, while negative sentiment clouded most of the remaining markets.