41.   Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, played down the significance of the industrial production report as a forecast of inflation.

42.   Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, said that other statistics released Thursday did not answer questions about the course of economic activity.

43.   Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, said the data showed clear-cut broad-based growth.

44.   Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Securities, said he was forecasting an increase of three-tenths of a percent in retail sales for April.

45.   During a long career associated with the metals industry, Strauss worked as a journalist, market analyst, wartime administrator, corporate executive, author and lecturer.

46.   Earlier in the year, for example, some market analysts were predicting a recession.

47.   Earlier this month, Martin Armstrong, chairman and chief market analyst at Princeton Economics Institute, said attorneys preparing charges of market manipulation approached him for advice.

48.   Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, noted that a drop in home sales had been expected, though not to the extent reported.

49.   Economists and market analysts are expecting the Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates at its regular meeting next Tuesday in a bid to revive the economy.

50.   Elaine Garzarelli, an independent market analyst who formerly was a leading strategist for Lehman Brothers, was reported during the day to have turned bullish on the market.