11.   This has also fanned expectations of further reductions in French interest rates.

12.   Those reports are fanning expectation at least one more rate cut is likely, even as Costello urged a wait-and-see attitude, traders said.

13.   U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan fanned expectations U.S. rates will be raised by saying the Fed.

14.   Yesterday, a stronger-than-expected report on durable goods orders fanned expectations of a rate increase.