21.   Traders said sentiment was buoyed by weaker-than-expected retail sales figures and a steadying of the dollar and sterling on the foreign exchange rates.

22.   However, a clutch of company results buoyed market sentiment slightly.

23.   In London dealers said that a late recovery on Wall Street on Friday helped to buoy sentiment in early trading.

24.   Dealers said that strong gains on Wall Street overnight and renewed strength in US treasuries had buoyed sentiment in early trading when most European bond markets posted early gains.

25.   They added that a stronger government bond market here also buoyed market sentiment.

26.   Ong said investor sentiment was also buoyed by the strong performance of the US market on Tuesday.

27.   Sentiment was also buoyed by overnight gains in Chicago futures contract as well as uniformly higher share prices in major markets overnight, brokers said.

28.   Sentiment was buoyed from the start of trade following overnight gains on Wall Street, brokers said.

29.   Share prices in London and Paris rose in early trading on Monday, as hopes of interest rate cuts in Britain and France buoyed sentiment in both markets.

30.   Signs of renewed economic activity failed to buoy sentiment, dealers said.