1.   He also ordered the government to buy more school lunch beef to bolster cattle prices, now plummeting because of a drought.

2.   Also bolstering prices Wednesday was optimism among some market participants that interest rates would soon be lowered in the United States and in Europe.

3.   Any reduction in supply has a tendency to bolster prices, traders noted.

4.   Bond prices were also bolstered by a Treasury auction of new five-year notes.

5.   Bond prices were also bolstered by the June employment report, which showed that the pace of job creation slowed in the month.

6.   Bond prices were bolstered in morning trading by a report showing a sharp slowdown in third-quarter gross domestic product.

7.   Bond prices were bolstered by a covering of short sales at the outset of the session and then again near the close of the futures market in the afternoon.

8.   A government report that the annual inflation rate declined in January failed to bolster share prices.

9.   A flood of interest payments could bolster bond prices.

10.   A late recovery in the dollar on the currency market also bolstered bond prices.