21.   Australian yields fell to their lowest in more than three years during the quarter.

22.   Banks and property shares rose, after sliding in recent weeks, as U.S. bond yields fell to their lowest in almost eight weeks.

23.   Black poverty last year, the lowest in recorded history, remains far worse than white poverty.

24.   Bond yields fell to their lowest in a month.

25.   Bonds rose earlier, at one point pushing yields to their lowest in nine weeks and bond futures to their high for the year.

26.   Bond yields fell to the lowest in seven weeks after the Labor Department reported an unexpected drop in employment for September.

27.   Bonds across Europe rose on the news, with the yields on short-dated German debt falling to their lowest in four months.

28.   Both rates were lowest in Massachusetts, Hawaii and Colorado.

29.   Also, secretarial pay still ranks among the lowest in the business world.

30.   All six states rank among the lowest in the nation for the amount of money appropriated for higher education as a share of state budgets.