71.   Prices tend to rise before the Chinese New Year.

72.   Prices tend to be high, due party to heavy sales taxes.

73.   Rising stock and bond prices tend to push the U.S. currency higher, since it tends to mean greater demand for the dollars needed to buy them.

74.   The gradual weakening of the U.S. dollar was already exerting upward pressure on gold, whose price tends to be inversely related to the strength of U.S. currency.

75.   In the Caribbean market no firm trend was discernible but prices tended to improve.

76.   In the Caribbean, prices remained broadly unchanged despite higher demand while in the North Sea prices tended to weaken.

77.   In the Caribbean, conditions remained unchanged while in the North Sea prices tended to weaken.

78.   By contrast, food prices tended to decline, the study showed.

79.   Demand on the oil tanker market in the Middle East rose substantially while prices tended to soften, London brokers E.A. Gibson reported Friday in their weekly review.

80.   WHO said cigarette prices tend to be higher in wealthier countries with strong tobacco control programmes, such as Norway, Australia and Hong Kong and China.