51.   Stock Prices Rally as Bonds Fall Microsoft helped propel the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq composite index higher.

52.   Stocks playing the biggest role in leading the index higher were Seagram Co., Alcan Aluminium Ltd. and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

53.   Stocks playing the largest role in leading the index higher were Alcan Aluminium Ltd., Bank of Montreal and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan.

54.   Stocks that may lead the index higher include Alcan Aluminium Ltd. and Falconbridge Ltd., as well as Royal Bank of Canada, and Bank of Nova Scotia.

55.   Technology stocks also helped lead the index higher.

56.   Telephone company Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA, which accounts for half of trading in Sao Paulo, led the Bovespa index higher.

57.   Technology-related stocks, including computer makers Compaq Computer Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. and electronics maker Texas Instruments Inc. also helped push the index higher.

58.   The rate cut sent all the major stock indexes higher.

59.   Thorn EMI Plc paced the index higher amid renewed takeover speculation.

60.   Today, America Home Products Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Bally Entertainment Corp. led the local index higher.