11.   Prices may ease until future relations with China become more clear, he said.

12.   Roy said the inflation rate should slow as food prices ease.

13.   So far, however, oil prices have eased as the prospect of a deepening world recession has increased.

14.   Still, analysts expect prices to ease next week.

15.   U.S. newspaper publishers are expected to report higher earnings in the second quarter, as advertising revenue strengthened and the price of newsprint eased.

16.   U.S. stocks and bonds rallied, driving the dollar higher, after a government report on producer prices eased concern that inflation will accelerate as the economy strengthens.

17.   U.S. stocks soared, following bonds, as a report showing a smaller-than-expected increase in consumer prices eased concern inflation is accelerating.

18.   U.S. Treasury bonds completed their best week in a year, rallying after a government report on producer prices eased concern that inflation will accelerate.

19.   Prices eased in Frankfurt, London and Paris.

20.   Prices have eased in recent days in anticipation of an OPEC agreement to increase output.