51.   Perhaps declining prices threatened his dearly held view of Big Oil as a Big Bad Bogeyman.

52.   Peruvian stocks fell for a third day, led by zinc stocks, as investors bet a declining price for the metal could reduce profits at mining companies.

53.   Petrochemical and textiles companies were hurt by declining prices, a problem worsened by slow demand from China, an important customer.

54.   Read-Rite and many disk drive makers have rebounded after taking a beating two weeks ago on fears that excess inventory and declining prices could hurt earnings.

55.   Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp. received some protection from declining prices because it hedged its gold contracts.

56.   Semiconductor stocks dropped on concern their earnings may be worsened on declining prices of chips.

57.   San Francisco-based Homestake will see higher exploration costs, which with declining gold prices, could push its results close to break-even, Christensen said.

58.   Sluggish demand and cheaper imports are the main reasons for declining prices, economists say.

59.   Since then, declining stock prices have cut into trading and commission income at banks across the spectrum.

60.   That allowed Compaq to increase its profit margins by reaping the benefit of declining prices for key components like memory chips and disk drives.