21.   The market further benefited from a rise in computer-industry stocks after better-than-expected earnings reports from Seagate, Ascend and others.

22.   The market further benefited from a rise in computer-industry stocks after better-than-expected earnings reports from Seagate, Ascend Communications and others.

23.   The market also benefited from strong tobacco shares, which rose on expectations that there could be a settlement regarding health-related lawsuits.

24.   The market could benefit if Kmart Corp., Limited Inc., Dayton Hudson Corp. and AnnTaylor Stores Corp. report unexpectedly strong earnings this week.

25.   The market has benefited substantially by lower interest rates and now interest rates seemed to have stabilized and at least made a short term move up.

26.   The market also benefited from expectations the government will be able to get proposed cost cuts through Congress.

27.   The market also benefitted from a climate of low inflation, low interest rates and improving corporate profits, said Fred Ketchen, senior trader with Scotia McLeod Inc.

28.   The sales market has benefited from the fact that there has been so little new residential construction.

29.   Those markets too benefited from renewed optimism for a budget accord.

30.   V.V. Sivakumar, head of research at Crosby Ltd., said he expected the market to benefit from the policy announcement once its full impact sank in.