51.   Automobile stocks were mostly higher amid forecasts for strong demand.

52.   Aylesworth noted other encouraging signs, including lower chip inventories at its customers and especially strong demand from Pacific Asian markets outside Japan.

53.   Bay saw strong demand for its switching products, although revenue was held back by a long-term decline in demand for its so-called hub products, Rynne said.

54.   Because of strong demand for computers, demand for these memory chips is outstripping supply and boosting revenues of semiconductor companies worldwide.

55.   Bank trust departments showed strong demand for that maturity, said Koralewski.

56.   Bay Networks Inc. said fiscal second-quarter earnings rebounded from a year-earlier loss on continued strong demand for its equipment that ties computers together in networks.

57.   Before the consumption tax increase companies were unable to export because of strong demand at home, but now they can redirect their efforts.

58.   Bell Atlantic and BellSouth said strong demand for data, wireless and telephone features lifted their fourth-quarter profits to meet or beat Wall Street expectations.

59.   Bell Atlantic, like other local phone companies, is profiting from that strong demand, analysts said.

60.   Berkshire Hathaway Inc. more than doubled the size of its upcoming stock sale, suggesting strong demand for shares in the company run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett.