31.   Technology stocks, whose surge buoyed the market most of the week, tumbled.

32.   That has the effect of buoying the market.

33.   The agency eased restrictions on companies that want to buy back their own shares, a step market watchers hope will buoy the markets as they resume trading.

34.   The companies may have been buying with public pension and postal fund money in a government-directed effort to buoy the market, some traders said.

35.   The Fed chairman repeated the favorable assessment of the economy and inflation that yesterday buoyed financial markets.

36.   The government hopes that stock buybacks will buoy the market by providing ready buyers for the stocks that banks are selling at a time when investors are wary.

37.   The housing market will be buoyed by improved job creation and lower mortgage rates, he said.

38.   The markets were buoyed from the start by economic indications that the economy was not overheating.

39.   The market should be buoyed by U.S. economic reports on the producer price index and retail sales, he said.

40.   The market was also buoyed by optimism about the prospects for economic recovery following the release of figures earlier this week showing gains in industrial production, traders said.