61.   While investors would have welcomed a drop in rates, some investors may have been expecting rates to rise.

62.   While investors would have welcomed a drop in interest rates, some may have been expecting rates to rise.

63.   Analysts said investors also welcome recent news of drastic corporate restructuring by major manufactures.

64.   Bond investors would welcome lower rates, because they increase the capital value of fixed-return investments.

65.   Bond investors welcomed news that the economy may be cooling because it helped encourage the hope that Federal Reserve might lower interest rates soon.

66.   But share prices moved higher as investors welcomed an announcement by the Bank of Japan that it will extend unsecured loans to the troubled bank to protect depositors.

67.   Equity investors welcomed renewed buying in the bond market Monday although analysts cautioned that the rebound reflected technical demand rather than a meaningful change in attitudes.

68.   Foreign investors will welcome this change to enhanced liquidity and transparency and they will finally have an alternative to the GDR market in its present form.

69.   If prices fluctuate but always end up on the higher side compared to the level the previous day, an investor would certainly welcome such a profitable situation.

70.   Investors also welcomed better-than-expected earnings and revenues from Cisco Systems, which reported first-quarter results late Monday.