31.   Oil, drug and household-products companies were among advancing stocks.

32.   One indicator of the lack of breadth is the number of advancing stocks compared with decliners.

33.   One way to do that is to compare the number of advancing stocks on a given exchange with the number of decliners.

34.   Other advancing stocks in the Northwest today included Alaska Air Group Inc., the parent of Alaska Airlines.

35.   Other advancing stocks included Ciber Inc., a designer of software systems.

36.   Telephone company Telefonos de Mexico SA, cement maker Cemex SA and broadcaster Grupo Televisa SA led advancing stocks.

37.   Broader stock indicators also rose, although advancing stocks only narrowly beat decliners.

38.   On every major index, advancing stocks easily outnumbered decliners.

39.   Among advancing stocks, aviation companies benefited from the announcement by UAL of a surprisingly strong first-quarter profit.

40.   Among advancing stocks, pharmaceuticals benefited from the US elections because investors had feared that a Democratic Congress would have tried again to reform the health care sector.