31.   More initial public stock offerings are hitting the market this week.

32.   Nervousness about how much money he will spend to heal it has made the franc highly unstable on the currency markets this week.

33.   Nonetheless, investors displayed a hearty appetite for new issues, more than three dozen of which are slated to reach the market this week.

34.   Nextlink Communications Inc. raised almost twice as much in the junk-bond market this week as it originally planned, but not by choice.

35.   Prices of Treasury securities rose Monday, despite the stiff test posed to the financial markets this week in its full schedule of economic data.

36.   Regency Health Services Inc. is also expected to raise money in the junk bond market this week.

37.   Speculation about whether the German central bank will cut interest rates at its last regular council meeting of the year has influenced the market all week.

38.   St. Louis stocks outperformed the broader market this week, led by Zoltek Inc. and Jefferson Smurfit Corp.

39.   Suharto roiled the currency markets this week by hinting that Industry and Technology Minister B.J. Habibie may be his vice president.

40.   Supporting the market this week were near-daily hints from government officials that Japan will drop its commitment to fiscal reform in favor of stoking the economy.