81.   Trade house GNI said the price of cocoa was likely to rise in the coming weeks as the market is expected to react to a cut in supply.

82.   Trade house GNI said dealers believed the west African drought during June and July would have no serious effect on the Ivory Coast harvest.

83.   London-based GNI trading house said that the steady rise in aluminium stocks lack of good news in July production figures had also depressed the market.

84.   London-based trading house GNI said that any future rebound in prices was likely to occur on the back of rising demand.

85.   Market sentiment was slightly improved by problems affecting exports of the metal from Venezuela to Japan, GNI trading house said.

86.   Meanwhile, GNI trading house said Chinese purchases had increased copper prices.

87.   Paris-based perfume house Guerlain also said chief executive Thibault Ponroy was resigning and would be replaced by the marketing director for Christian Dior perfumes, Renato Semerari.

88.   The DMP publishing house said it had offered the back page to the Act Up anti-AIDS group.

89.   The GNI trading house said that the market fell under the weight of increased shipments on to the market.

90.   The GNI trading house said that investors were worried that South African and Australian producers would soon engage in widespread selling of gold.