71.   Analyst Marcon said Manpower may be able to raise prices in some markets where Adia and Ecco link up.

72.   Analysts are predicting that takeovers could lift share prices in some sectors.

73.   Among those testifying will be economists who recently advocated temporary curbs on prices in volatile wholesale electricity markets like that in California.

74.   Analysts said investors should look for signs that prices in the glass industry are holding steady.

75.   Analysts said last week that a price in this range would be high.

76.   Analysts said prices in Europe remained competitive and sales in the U.S. were depressed while wholesalers sold off old stock.

77.   An aging infrastructure of transmission lines, gas pipelines and generating plants is the major factor behind skyrocketing electricity prices in California, industry officials say.

78.   And a federal energy regulator announced plans to investigate whether Enron and other companies manipulated electricity prices in California last year.

79.   An unexpected drop in U.S. producer prices in December failed to temper declines even as it bolstered optimism that U.S. interest rates will fall.

80.   Analysts cite inflation fears for falling share prices in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.