31.   Zeneca and EuroDisney danced on gains here and in Paris on Thursday but overall European sentiment was depressed by interest-rate considerations and weakness on bond markets.

32.   Market sentiment was depressed by lower-than-expected profits of Japanese companies, brokers said.

33.   Sentiment was depressed by a political crisis in Italy and by concern about the state of the French budget deficit.

34.   Sentiment was depressed by the fall of the dollar against the mark.

35.   Sentiment was depressed by weakness on the US bond market caused by strong figures for sales of new homes in the United States in May.

36.   Sentiment had been depressed by weakness on the French bond market during the morning.

37.   Sentiment was also depressed by a gloomy official report on the outlook for industrial production.

38.   Sentiment was depressed by a slight increase in long-term interest rates and by a technical correction following several sessions during which prices had risen.

39.   The announcement of a mid-October strike in the French civil service depressed market sentiment, as everybody remembers the fierce strike movement that hit France last December.