21.   Analysts said investors may be moving some assets from stocks to bonds as yields approach a seven-month high.

22.   And no one could explain how exactly Cathay might gain if one Chinese company did sell its stock to another.

23.   And the ratio of advancing stocks to declining ones also peaks before the major averages turn down.

24.   And the same concern over the Fed intentions that sent bonds lower caused stocks to slump.

25.   And top-performing mutual funds have added shares of its stock to their portfolios.

26.   Another local online banking company, Netzee, offered its stock to the public for the first time Tuesday.

27.   Anecdotally, real estate brokers report that many buyers are shifting funds they had invested in stocks to housing.

28.   And, while the broad stock market has achieved new highs, not so the small-company stocks to which new offerings are compared.

29.   Any fall in interest rates makes bonds less attractive than stocks to many investors.

30.   As a mutual company, owned by its policyholders, Met Life has no stock to use in acquisitions.