1.   Analysts and institutional bond buyers look beyond negative political developments.

2.   Big bond buyers applaud the effort, though some say privately that the current situation allows some mutual funds with good research departments to get a competitive edge.

3.   A fellow here has a nice bridge to sell to those bond buyers.

4.   But a sharp drop in initial weekly unemployment claims and a weak dollar discouraged bond buyers early in the session.

5.   But the bankers found a way to quantify the risk in terms that bond buyers could understand.

6.   But the split rating will have market consequences by tempting some potential bond buyers to use the lower rating to demand higher interest rates when South Africa issues debt.

7.   But the strong economy that produced those earnings is alarming the bond market with inflation fears and scaring what few bond buyers there are.

8.   Clymer said the bonds, which will be taxable by the federal government, have been marketed mostly to corporate bond buyers such as institutional investors in the U.S.

9.   Earnings are better than ever, but the strong economy that produced those earnings is alarming the bond market with inflation fears and scaring the few bond buyers remaining.

10.   Fewer government bonds means the crowd of bond buyers will have to go increasingly to the corporate market.