11.   Still, many analysts expressed skepticism that stock prices were headed much higher.

12.   Than, in October, stock prices crashed.

13.   The currency markets are bidding the dollar down to historic lows, causing bond prices, and thus stock prices, to drop.

14.   Though both have enjoyed soaring stock prices recently, they are expected to record losses in fiscal quarters ending this month.

15.   Those partnerships inflated company profits and concealed debts, driving up stock prices and making some Enron executives rich.

16.   To be sure, many brokerage stocks declined during the first half of June and again in July, as bond yields rose and stock prices faltered.

17.   What happens to stock prices is important because banks, insurance companies and other institutions are counting on a rise in equities to help write off problem loans.

18.   When that happens, then millions of Americans cross the line into irrational exuberance, if they continue to drive up stock prices, unmindful of the changed circumstances.

19.   Overseas investors, who had been the primary force driving up stock prices in recent weeks, were selling aggressively.

20.   But inflows of cash from domestic pension funds following a recent deregulation of pension fund management rules is lending support to stock prices, market participants said.