61.   The improved inflation outlook, combined with a slowing economy, should bring about a decline in interest rates to levels below where they are now, economists said.

62.   The inflation outlook is far from alarming in most department stores and shopping malls as the Christmas shopping season approaches.

63.   The inflation outlook has not been helped by a sharp decline in the pound against the German mark.

64.   The inflation outlook holds the key to the economic outlook, however.

65.   The inflation outlook in the United States will also affect Japanese bonds, said Eiji Dohke, a bond analyst at Sanwa Bank Ltd.

66.   The jury is still out on the U.S. inflation outlook even though labor costs continue to rise, the Federal Reserve said today.

67.   The inflation outlook is good.

68.   The long unblemished inflation outlook in the U.S. is likely to take a hit next week when the government releases its quarterly report on employment costs.

69.   The market has been influenced all year by the interplay among interest rates, the inflation outlook and corporate earnings.

70.   The news lifted longer-term bonds, whose value is primarily governed by inflation outlook.