51.   Yields dropped to their lowest this year on Friday in New York in response to the U.S. Labor Department reporting a surprise drop in producer prices.

52.   Yields often drop in trading leading up to an auction as dealers try to drive down prices to make the securities more attractive.

53.   Yield dropped drastically as Aventis sought clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to switch from the multidose vials containing thimerosal to single-dose vials without it.

54.   Yields have also dropped in recent months amid optimism that President Clinton and congressional Republicans will agree on a plan to balance the federal budget, investors said.

55.   Yields have also dropped on expectations that weaker Asian economies will sap exports to the region.

56.   As bond prices rise, their yields drop, and this has a big effect on the rates banks charge consumers.

57.   Crop yields are dropping because of severe erosion and shortages of fertilizer and organic material in the soil.

58.   They are fleeing a Japanese stock market that remains in an eight-year rut and a bond market that has seen yields drop to all-time lows.