31.   The surprise departure rattled some investors, especially since no successor was immediately named.

32.   The second tumble in U.S. stock prices in a week also rattled Japanese investors, traders said.

33.   Yeltsin rattled investors by appointing and then sacking a complete incompetent to run the key privatization ministry.

34.   Above all, investors were rattled by continuing fears that the Federal Reserve has not yet completed its efforts to ward off inflation by imposing higher interest rates.

35.   Attempts to restrict or control the very foreign capital that has made these countries rich only rattle investors.

36.   But on Wall Street, the inflation report rattled investors who thought it might diminish the chances of further rate decreases.

37.   Indonesian shares closed sharply lower, with blue chips sustaining heavy losses after investors were rattled by riots in Jakarta on Saturday.

38.   Investors were rattled by the overnight missile and plane attacks on Afghanistan that the United States said were aimed at terrorists.

39.   Many economists had expected the indexes to rise more sharply, but the moderate increases rattled investors nonetheless.

40.   No shots were fired Monday, but investors were rattled.