51.   When the Senate voted last week to phase out farm subsidies, some investors might have assumed the move would depress agricultural stocks.

52.   With litigation fears depressing the stocks, some stock pickers now consider them undervalued.

53.   Worries about higher rates depressed stocks in the past couple weeks.

54.   A drop in bond prices depressed stocks Tuesday.

55.   And Merrill Lynch downgraded the entire consumer products sector, depressing stocks including Colgate Palmolive and Kimberly Clark.

56.   Merrill Lynch downgraded its ratings on the entire consumer products sector, depressing stocks including Colgate Palmolive and Kimberly Clark.

57.   Rising credit market interest rates, which move in the opposite direction to bond prices, helped depress stocks.

58.   Stocks were also depressed by an overnight downturn in the tech-rich Nasdaq index.

59.   Stocks were depressed in Japan, however, amid fears that trade tensions between Japan and the United States could intensify.

60.   Stocks were also depressed by an overnight downturn in the tech-rich Nasdaq index, traders said.