11.   Analysts said the market is waiting, so far in vain, for companies to say the outlook for future revenues and earnings is improving.

12.   Another analyst said the market was waiting for the government to quickly take clear constructive action to help boost the declining stock prices.

13.   As with the stock market, dealers said the currency market was waiting for news from the meeting between the IMF and the government.

14.   But Syahrial said the market was still waiting for more constructive and direct moves on the part of the government to eliminate various distortions in the economy.

15.   But markets did not wait even for the meeting to start.

16.   Dealers said the market was waiting for the government to outline plans for a currency board that would peg the value of the rupiah to the U.S. dollar.

17.   Diversified Securities Inc. Vice President Jose Ricardo Garcia said the market is waiting for first quarter economic results due to be released by the government this Friday.

18.   Financial markets are waiting to see whether the Fed cuts interest rates further to stimulate the U.S. economy, which is the biggest buyer of Japanese exports.

19.   Markets were waiting to see whether Wall Street would rebound, and what Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi would say in a speech Friday on economic policy.

20.   Matharoo said markets were waiting to hear more details of the agreement.