11.   And a spate of mild autumn weather held back spending on electricity and natural gas.

12.   An increase in demand would come after more than a week of mild weather drove prices lower and left U.S. natural gas and heating oil supplies larger than expected.

13.   Ample sun and mild weather will cover much of California and the Southwest.

14.   Analysts credited rising stock prices, low unemployment, high levels of consumer confidence and mild weather.

15.   Another aspect of El Nino is the unseasonably mild weather in the Northeast, the region that feeds most winter visitors to Florida.

16.   And while the construction report was strong, he noted that it might have been skewed by unusually mild weather in February.

17.   As a result, businesses should start accumulating goods again in coming months, because they expect mild weather will encourage consumers to open their pocketbooks.

18.   Anything short of mild weather, though, could keep prices high through the winter.

19.   As the new year opened to mild weather, Mike Ruff struggled to drum up business for his Brooklyn plumbing and heating installation company.

20.   At the same time, pressure eased on mines and utilities, where output has been falling for months, partly because of unusually mild weather.