21.   Bank issues, because of their steady dividend rich returns, compete with bonds and other fixed income securities for investors.

22.   Banks and utilities compete with bonds and other fixed income securities for investors because of their steady dividend rich returns.

23.   Banks compete with bonds and other fixed income securities for the attention of investors due to their steady dividend-rich returns.

24.   Banks compete with bonds and other fixed income securities for investments because of their dividend-rich returns.

25.   Bad economic news often boosts bond prices because it lessens the risk of inflation, which erodes the fixed income securities.

26.   Because inflation erodes the value of fixed income investments, investors are reluctant to buy bonds with long maturities.

27.   Bank of America, whose emerging market business is in fixed income, is one of the latest to retrench.

28.   Besides Quattrone, it scored a victory last year when it lured Edson Mitchell, co-head of fixed income capital markets at Merrill Lynch.

29.   Being on a fixed income necessitates my using this way of shopping. . . .

30.   Bonds rose at the open as a decline in Tokyo stocks, following a fall in New York shares, boosted the attraction of fixed income securities.