11.   Among other benchmark stocks, properties were mixed amid concern government plans to curb rising home prices may slow apartment sales and developers earnings growth.

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

13.   And because tobacco executives stand to gain from rising share prices, investors say their interests and those of management are on the same track.

14.   And hopefully, rising stock prices.

15.   And concern inflation might accelerate hurts bonds because rising prices erodes the value of the fixed-income assets.

16.   And the hybrids are attracting a lot of attention amid rising gas prices.

17.   And the weakening of the dollar, particularly against the Japanese yen, coupled with rising commodity prices, raised fears that inflation may recur.

18.   And these increases should curb rising prices over the long run.

19.   Another dyspeptic reader whose mind has been boggled by marketplace machinations wrote to complain about rising gasoline prices.

20.   Another reason behind rising share prices was foreign investment, he said.