21.   Bay Networks rose along with other networking stocks as concern about disappointing revenue in the networking industry subsided.

22.   Berry College still views its Coke stock as immensely valuable.

23.   Besides, the experts said, food companies today are operating with relatively weak stocks as merger currencies because of several years of lackluster profit growth.

24.   Besides, institutional investors are more willing to take stock as a way to stay fully invested in a given industry.

25.   Bonds, meantime, were led lower by a Treasury market decline, and as investors switched from fixed interest securities into stocks as Asian markets settled.

26.   Bond traders have been looking at stocks as a gauge of the strength of the economy.

27.   Braverman said that NBCi would need to use its new public stock as currency in acquisitions to get a bigger audience.

28.   A continued rise in U.S. interest rates also weighed on stocks as investors shifted from emerging market equities to U.S. bonds to take advantage of higher yields.

29.   A few public funds, such as the Prudent Bear Fund, actively short stocks as an investment strategy.

30.   A decline in U.S. interest rates also lifted stocks as investors switched from U.S. bonds into emerging market equities in search of higher returns.