41.   Share prices in Hong Kong closed higher for a fourth consecutive session Friday after a late buying spree erased earlier losses.

42.   Stock markets were lower around the world Monday, but many had bottomed out and were erasing their losses by the time Wall Street opened with no bad surprises.

43.   Stocks rose Thursday, erasing earlier losses as bargain hunters successfully pulled the market out of a slump in technology stocks.

44.   Stocks closed higher Thursday, erasing earlier losses as bargain hunters successfully pulled the market out of a slump in technology stocks.

45.   Stocks shot up as the market opened and appeared to be on the way to erasing the losses of the previous session.

46.   The Nikkei finished higher as gains by high technology exporters, buoyed by the weak yen, erased early losses.

47.   The public fund injections would give the banks enough capital to erase losses on stock holdings, said Yanagisawa, who heads the Financial Revitalization Commission.

48.   Tokyo stocks erased early losses to end higher Friday on short covering sparked by hopes for new steps by the government to counter deflation.

49.   Tokyo stock prices rose moderately Tuesday morning, erasing initial losses, while the U.S. dollar fell against the yen on profit-taking.

50.   Tokyo stock prices closed higher Tuesday, erasing initial losses, while the U.S. dollar fell against the yen on profit-taking.