71.   Farm markets remained soft Tuesday, gold continued its decline and most major commodity indexes gave ground.

72.   Financial markets remain volatile, meaning that banks could still be vulnerable to damage from overseas.

73.   Exchange officials also hope to put all three on a common trading system later this year, though the markets will remain legally separate and have slightly different rules.

74.   Flooding in the upper Midwest and auto-related strikes added thousands to jobless rolls, even though labor markets otherwise remain strong.

75.   For foreign buyers, the U.S. bond market remains the most attractive in the world.

76.   For most businesses looking to export, though, the Chinese market remains much smaller than that of Japan, Europe or the United States.

77.   First, if the advertising market remains horrid, the AOL Internet unit will be hard pressed to make a significant contribution to cash-flow growth this year.

78.   For the most part, though, the economic conditions that fueled bull markets worldwide remain in effect.

79.   Foreign markets remained relatively stable Thursday, as did the value of the dollar.

80.   Ford said its results showed that the market remained firm.