21.   Dealers were waiting for publication of the US consumer price index later on Wednesday.

22.   Dealers were waiting for publication on Friday of figures for unemployment in the United States in July.

23.   Dealers were waiting for the publication later in the day of the US index for factory gate prices in March.

24.   Dealers were waiting for the publication of US inflation figures on Tuesday and Wednesday to see if the Fed would raise interest rates to guard against inflationary pressures.

25.   Dealers were waiting for US employment figures for the month of June that were due to be released on Friday to give the market fresh impetus, he said.

26.   Dealers had been waiting for the data as a pointer to the climate for interest rates in Europe.

27.   Dealers waited for US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to give his half-yearly report on the US economy, due to be delivered before Congress on Wednesday.

28.   Dealers were also waiting for the US trade balance on Tuesday and the treasury budget figures on Thursday.

29.   Dealers were also waiting for US industrial production figures for April later in the day.

30.   Dealers were waiting for any sign that China or Russia had started to buy up sugar on the international market.