11.   An option gives the holder the right, though not the obligation, to buy the stock from the seller of the option at the strike price.

12.   An unresolved dispute with the government over electricity rates kept the stock from rising earlier.

13.   An influx of money into stocks from baby boomers opening retirement accounts also boosted stocks.

14.   And some analysts think federal action to reduce payments for skilled nursing care and related contract rehabilitation services would lift these stocks from under a cloud.

15.   And that was the beginning of the end of a high-technology hype that had turned Omnigene Diagnostics stock from a dud into a high flyer almost overnight.

16.   As he was moving the stock from the building to load it on his truck, drivers were stopping their cars and buying.

17.   Because companies with tracking stocks are legally owned by their corporate parents, some investors are also not sure how to parse one stock from the other.

18.   Banking shares also slid, in part on concern an expected flood of newly-issued stock from banks this autumn will erode share values in the sector.

19.   Bid is the price at which marketmakers will buy the stock from an investor.

20.   Boehle gets his stock from a buyer who trolls for large purchases of used clothing all over Germany -- Dusseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Munich.