11.   After a monthlong rally sent most of the major stock indexes to all-time highs, many market analysts had been anticipating a fall in share prices this week.

12.   But a one-month drop does not necessarily foreshadow a trend, said Peter Force, a Los Angeles labor market analyst for the state Employment Development Department.

13.   Business professors and market analysts apparently need more convincing.

14.   But Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, said the bond market could not get away from economic fundamentals for any sustained period of time.

15.   But Laszlo Birinyi, a market analyst, said the demand for United States equities has not declined, even during the selloff earlier this week.

16.   But market analyst Nima Nattagh of TRW Redi Property Data in Anaheim, Calif. thinks otherwise.

17.   But on Monday, market analysts largely disagreed.

18.   But Peter Force, a labor market analyst with the Employment Development Department, said the local unemployment rate also clashed with the number of jobs measured.

19.   But some market analysts said the number of new jobs was not as big as some had feared.

20.   But Nima Nattagh, a market analyst at Experian, a real estate information company, cautions against reading too much into two months of price increases.