21.   Tiger Management LLC, the largest investor in US Airways, may seek to have the airline sold after recent earnings stumbles and a stock price slide.

22.   Tokyo consumer prices slide at their steepest rate in four years in November as food prices plummeted and weak spending drove down other costs, government figures showed.

23.   OPEC officials have said the two cuts have largely succeeded in preventing a price slide during an economic slowdown.

24.   Despite the price slide, many traders said they expected the markets to rebound Friday or next week.

25.   That could conceivably give the group time to plan a full meeting to combat the recent price slide by as early as late March.

26.   That could give the group time to plan a full meeting to combat the recent price slide by as early as late March.

27.   The price slide is a result of intense competition from rivals in South Korea and Taiwan, along with a slowdown in demand for PCs in Japan.

28.   The rally was also buoyed by talk that the price slide had spurred export sales.

29.   Wheat futures climbed higher Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade in what was seen as a correction to a price slide before the three-day holiday weekend.

30.   Wheat futures were buoyed by expectations for solid weekly export sales as a result of prices being lowered in the recent price slide.