31.   Colombian stocks were little changed in thin trading as demand for several key shares offset a decline in Banco de Colombia.

32.   Colombian stocks were little changed, as demand for brewer Bavaria SA offset a decline by cement stocks on weak cement consumption.

33.   Dallas, for example, has offset declines in the defense industry with an increase in service employment, Hazleton said.

34.   CZECH stocks closed little changed as gains in phone company SPT Telecom AS, utility CEZ AS and engineering companies offset a decline in Komercni Banka AS.

35.   Daihatsu offset the decline by cutting costs.

36.   Declines were offset by continued foreign buying of electrical shares, which led the market yesterday.

37.   Demand for jet fuel and truck fuel rose, offsetting the decline in gasoline.

38.   Distributors are consolidating as a way to offset the decline in gross profit margins, said Leonard Yaffe, an analyst at Montgomery Securities.

39.   DUTCH stocks were mixed, as publisher Wolters Kluwer NV gained on raised earnings estimates, offsetting declines in financial services stocks, such as ABN Amro Holding NV.

40.   Electronic companies like Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., however, have been able to offset those declines with surging sales of computer chips.