1.   Analysts attributed the winning session to a combination of bargain hunting after the recent price slide and to a slightly more optimistic outlook for earnings.

2.   Bargain hunting after recent declines linked to tax-related selling helped rally market indexes after the start of the new year, said Kansas City trader Paul Dow.

3.   Bargain hunting?

4.   Because bargain hunting is hard work, Barneys provided shoppers with hot dogs, ice cream, cookies and beer.

5.   Bargain hunting and short-covering helped stabilize the market Monday.

6.   Bargain hunting will be rife this season, most experts say.

7.   A better than expected consumer confidence report and routine bargain hunting lifted stock prices on Wednesday.

8.   After five weeks of losses, bargain hunting was one explanation.

9.   But analysts suggested the buying was motivated mostly by bargain hunting and, in the final hour, short covering rather than to any change in investor sentiment.

10.   But buying continued, pushing all major stock indexes higher in bargain hunting.