21.   Scores of firms, especially Internet start-ups, are taking advantage of a booming stock market and voracious investor appetite to issue publicly traded stock.

22.   Shares got a boost after U.S. bond yields fell, which increased investor appetite for equities, analysts said.

23.   Simply put, with demand for new tech issues so high, investment banks scrambled to find any company they could that would satisfy investor appetites.

24.   That helped strengthen the peso, lower local interest rates and increase investor appetite for equities.

25.   That surge weakened investor appetite for equities.

26.   The deal is being watched as an indicator of investor appetite for asset-management companies, as other private firms weigh their own offerings.

27.   The prospect of a Tenneco split has not whetted investor appetite for Tenneco shares.

28.   The plan also allows Prudential to take advantage of surging real estate prices and growing investor appetite while still retaining a stake in its properties and diversifying its investments.

29.   The waning investor appetite for telephone stocks is hampering capital-raising efforts by the new market entrants, too.

30.   There may be too many small and fragmented funds to meet a declining investor appetite for municipal bonds, municipal bonds experts say.