21.   Insurance companies own loads of Treasury securities, whose value fall as yields rise.

22.   Its stock value fell, along with its earnings.

23.   Of course, their value also falls more sharply and more quickly when interest rates rise.

24.   One after another, currency values fell in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, causing a round of bankruptcies and shutdowns and crashing stock markets.

25.   Other assets can generate more expensive fighting, especially when their value falls.

26.   Property values have fallen because of over-building, an economic slowdown and high interest rates.

27.   Property values fell, absentee landlords moved in, and so did a lot of people receiving welfare or disability payments.

28.   Regulators say both firms made the loans to keep their customers trading stocks even when the value of their accounts fell below required levels.

29.   Since then its value has fallen by two-thirds, largely because of mounting exposure to asbestos litigation in the United States.

30.   That battered short-term notes, whose value falls when rate cut hopes wane.